Date Published:
February 9, 2006
NO MORE HOMELESS KATRINA SURVIVORS!
On Monday, February 13th, the New Orleans homeless population will skyrocket, and the survivors of Katrina will be victimized again. FEMA's short-term hotel program expires for most of the 26,000 displaced hurricane survivors and most of these evacuees have not been provided with long-term, or even transitional housing solutions. An immediate nation-wide phone call and email campaign is needed to help keep families off the street. Don't let Katrina survivors be further victimized by the poverty-promoting plans of those with the power to correct the issues!
CONTACTS
FEMA Nicol Andrews, Deputy Strategic Director, 202-646-7917,
nicol [dot] andrews [at] dhs [dot] gov
MAYOR NAGIN ph 504-658-4900, fx 504-658-4939
CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ph 504-658-(1010 John Batt) (1020 Renee Pratt) (1030 Jacquelyn Clarkson) (1040 Cynthia Morrell) (1050 Cynthia Lewis) (1060 Ed Sapir) (1070 Oliver Thomas)
GOVERNOR BLANCO ph 866-366-1121, fx 225-342-7099
WHEN YOU CALL OR WRITE:
• Tell each council member and the mayor to provide housing now! Council members must stop pushing trailer parks out of their districts, and the mayor must take a stand for housing NOLA citizens. Now is not the time for self-interested political jockeying.
• Tell the elected officials: There are major absentee voting efforts organizing their evacuated constituents. If they do not act in the best interests of ALL their constituents they will be defeated in the upcoming elections.
• Tell the elected officials: Governor Blanco's plan to shelter survivors for 30 days in cities far from their jobs and their damaged homes is unacceptable. Those shelters must be provided in New Orleans.
• Tell the elected officials: Our tax funded National Guard should not be used to force survivors into homelessness at gunpoint.
• Tell FEMA: that they are mandated by the Stafford Act to provide housing for disaster victims for eighteen months. Their attempt to cut-off shelter programs is illegal as well as immoral.
• Tell FEMA: The Stafford Act requires that transitional housing and rental assistance must be provided locally to the survivors’ workplace. Trailers hours outside of NOLA are not feasible, or acceptable.
• Tell everyone: The money that has been pledged to the recovery belongs to the people, not the corporations. Homeowners need the grants to rebuild, give corporations the loans • they were insured.
• Tell these hotels to honor the FEMA extensions Don't evict hurricane survivors into homelessness to house wealthy Mardi Gras tourists! Royal St Charles 504-587-3700, AmeriHost Inn and Suites 504-299-9900 Quality Inn: Maison St Charles 504-522-0187
For more info contact
www.no-heat.org , 504-883-8225
www.communitylaborunited.org
www.commongroundrelief.org
