Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
HUD Marginalizes Katrina Victims
cduck19802002
follow
0
12-14-2007 11:44 PM
128 views
tags:
katrina
,
hurricane katrina
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
Life Of Her Party
The Battle Between McCain and Bush: The Ca...
Putting Country First...Sarah Palin..?
Blackwater in New Orleans--Again
Remember Katrina: Nah, Let'em Eat Cake!
Some people will never learn
McCain To Katrina Victims In 2005: You're...
More clips from
cduck19802002
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima - Africans In Science...
Audio Slideshow of the China Quake
Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group_NEJM
Today's Top Clips
Shaking things up on Clipmarks.com
Free Speech and the Right to Offend
50 Billion Suns! -The Biggest Single Object in the Universe
The Evolving AI Ecosystem
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory
When A Man Plays With The Moon!
"The Road Goes On Forever and the party never ends..".
16 Websites to Super Charge Your English Vocabulary
Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples
Your Friday awwwww
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
December 14, 2007
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7e62c307-d8d2-4a98-b020-fce019203ec3/F69F1A0B-CD41-4C57-B18A-1E7D4109BF46/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370" href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smirkingchimp.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370">Despite Katrina causing the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War, HUD is spending $762 million in taxpayer funds to tear down over 4600 public housing subsidized apartments and replace them with 744 similarly subsidized units - an 82% reduction.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370">HUD plans to build an additional 1000 market rate and tax credit units - which will still result in a net loss of 2700 apartments to New Orleans - the remaining new apartments will cost an average cost of over $400,000 each!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370">Over 50,000 families still living in tiny FEMA trailers are being systematically forced out. Over 90,000 homeowners in Louisiana are still waiting to receive federal recovery funds from the Road Home.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370">“If you try to bulldoze our homes, we’re going to fight,” promised resident Sharon Jasper. “There’s going to be a war in New Orleans.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11370">If the U.S. government is allowed to demolish thousands of much-needed affordable apartments of Katrina victims, what chance do others have?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F69F1A0B-CD41-4C57-B18A-1E7D4109BF46/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK