"There's a gap in funding," said Michele Wilson, director of Jackson County's long-term recovery committee. "You do wonder, 'Why are there such tight regulations, when in Jackson County alone, there are over 3,000 open cases of people who need help getting back in their homes?' "
Also, the fund's preference of using volunteers for rebuilding "is not always realistic, especially at 22 months (after Katrina)," said Paige Roberts, director of the southeast Mississippi chapter of the American Red Cross. "The volunteers are fewer and harder to find."
A Pascagoula homeowner was rejected for funding because he wasn't living in his home at the time Katrina destroyed it. His niece owns half of it, and he had moved to Georgia to live with his dying father six months earlier, Roberts said. Now, he lives in a Pascagoula FEMA trailer park.
The Clarion Ledger Article
Some good questions are being asked here.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I will say be glad Barbour is not Blanco.
However, this story is troubling.
Maybe the storm funds will find their way into Barbour's nieces companies' pockets like millions of other storm funds have. These people have no dignity at all! Common crooks and thieves!
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