Wednesday, September 07, 2005


A new dust bowl?

Who is going to build homes for the poor of New Orleans? If the city is rebuilt, isn't it more likely to be glitzy resorts and condos and corporate headquarters, with some middle class housing mixed in? Since when, since the highly questionable urban renewal projects of the 1960's, are developers at all interested in large scale construction of low-income housing?

So where will the poor go? Will many stay in Texas because the people are so very welcoming there, as the first mother says, and because there's some opportunities for work? Might these New Orleanians, with their discernably different accents and manners, become the Okies of our time, uprooted and downcast, attached to but forever separated from their desolated homeland and culture?

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