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4 Years After Hurricane Katrina

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 30. Aug, 2009 in class and poverty, economic policy, environmental justice, human rights, katrina, mississippi, MS Gulf Coast, nola, race and racism

On August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Mississippi, and the western side of the storm grazed New Orleans. Five months after the storm, I visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast. According to a National Hurricane Center report on Katrina, “in many locations, most of the buildings along the coast were [...]

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Government Homelessness Programs: A MS Gulf Coast Triptych

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Jan, 2008 in breaking news, class and poverty, environmental justice, friends, human rights, katrina, MS Gulf Coast, race and racism, Weblogs

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport. In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing [...]

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