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...places better suited to habitation. How much would it cost to build a reliable levee around New Orleans--$25 billion? $50 billion? For $25 billion, we could build a new $90,000 home for 275,000 households displaced by Katrina. Simple economics says New Orleans should not be rebuilt. CHARLIE SMITH Pittsburgh...
...buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were mostly houses of poor and powerless people, who needless to say were not offered any alternative places to live. Illegal building by the rich and powerful is flourishing - even skyscrapers! A similar pattern is evident in our streets and sidewalks: rebuilt mostly in the business district, while the rest are full of holes, lack drains and are not much more than muddy paths. I fully agree with Rama when he says that his generation was "not prepared for being politicians in a democratic society" - something he has largely proved over...
...debate over the city's upright but erratic mayor showed no signs of abating. "We shouldn't have to choose between corruption and incompetence on something this important," says veteran political consultant C.B. Forgotston, once a Nagin backer. "If Nagin remains in charge, the city simply will never get rebuilt." The debate over his performance is hardly academic. In February, Nagin faces a re-election contest that will help determine the trajectory of New Orleans' revival. If Nagin can't convince enough of his displaced supporters that they should return home (he estimates that New Orleans' population could eventually...
...their homes, as they are now, are lost to them, most, like Hagan, dug in their heels on the controversial subject of whether the vulnerable, low-lying Ninth-surrounded by canals and the Mississippi River-should be allowed to rise from Katrina's muck. "How many times have they rebuilt Florida after something like this?" asked Hagan, a housekeeper for the nearby Jefferson Barracks that house the National Guard. "They're just gonna have to improve those levees, because we're stayin...
...also has a student body of approximately 10,000, of which the majority live off-campus; some commute a significant distance. When classes begin on Oct. 19, many students and faculty will be living in damaged houses, or trying to find temporary accommodation while their houses are repaired or rebuilt. “Lamar has a large number of older, non-traditional students who work half to full-time and also have serious family responsibilities,” Professor of Marketing Soumava Bandyopadhyay wrote in an e-mail. “These students will find it particularly difficult to balance...