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Six Months After Katrina, New Report Shows Poor Still Being Left Behind
On the six month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we get a report from Oxfam America on the recovery of the Gulf States. Oxfam director says, "Despite critical reports and investigative hearings of government failures, despite the flurry of commitments to confront poverty in the U.S.–six months after Katrina, little has changed." [includes rush transcript]
AMY GOODMAN: We are joined on the phone by Minor Sinclair. Welcome to Democracy Now!
MINOR SINCLAIR: Good morning Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you summarize your findings?
MINOR SINCLAIR: Yes. I mean, it reads like the Congo. Three quarters of a million people still displaced. The 300,000 homes that had been destroyed. I was there just a couple of weeks ago, you know, the rubble is still in the lots people are living in tents in the lots without food., and without water and without access to toilets. And with so much of the money getting poured into the direct relief efforts, i.e. putting people up in shelters and in hotels. And that deadline is hitting us. Where are people going to go?
New Orleans is now a quarter of the size it was before the storm. It has become a majority white population when it was a majority African-American population before. And the lowest communities, communities of color, the —- the people who have been chronically left behind by this—- in the historical past of the United States are being left behind in the recovery efforts, too.
Let me give you an example. Of the 300,000 homes that are destroyed, 45% were occupied by renters. There’s no assistance going in to help rebuild affordable housing, low-income housing for the people renting. And disproportionately renters are poor African-American and with little of their own access to private means or credit. The money that is going in is needed for infrastructure, to rebuild homes, to revitalize the economy. But it is not — it is clearly not enough and the money needs to be targeted towards hitting the people that are most vulnerable.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you for that summary. Of, course we’ll continue to follow what is happening.
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