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...Kurt Werling, for one, has had it with waiting. The 33-year-old construction company owner left his pregnant wife in Houston six weeks after Katrina and went home to Lakeview. He had his two-story house gutted, sanitized and treated for mold in October. His new lawn was in before Thanksgiving, but all around him were devastated houses. Neighbors said they were waiting for insurance money or a government handout, but mostly, he thinks, "it was just indecision." Intent on saving their subdivision, he and neighbor Al Petrie, 53, decided to form a limited liability company...
...They've made progess, but it's been tough, what with no utilities, phones or any neighbors at first. Petrie, who handles investor relations for oil companies, called family and friends for money, then oil business associates in New York, San Francisco, Washington and Houston. They raised $2.5 million - the majority of it locally - to buy and raze 19 properties in a 10-square-block area near their homes. Petrie's new duplex is their prototype for the future: three stories, 2,400 square feet of living space, built up at least 9 feet 4 inches, accommodating a garage that...
...Many evacuees are shopping around for services that may be an immediate fix," says Jerry Montgomery of Houston's Katrina Aid Today. "We hope to steer them toward a process of long-term recovery...
...Washington, D.C., nonprofit. The study found that those who self-evacuated pre-storm and had someone to stay with fared better, with much of that category going to Atlanta, where only 16,000 of the 100,000 evacuees who came have left, versus those who ended up in Houston (150,000 of 250,000), San Antonio (15,000 of 30,000), Baton Rouge (25,000 to 30,000 of 300,000) and Birmingham (1,500 of 20,000), who have either returned to New Orleans to gone elsewhere. The report found that evacuation was an ever-evolving odyssey, as evacuees...
...Houston, where 25,000 evacuees were bussed to the Astrodome, circumstances from the beginning were worse, and remain challenging. According to the report, 40% of its New Orleans transfers have left. But Houston still has 35,000 people among its evacuees in temporary housing, and funding vouchers are running out for some 5,000 by August 31, another 2,000 in September and all of the remaining by October...