[news] Two Years Later, 12,000 Homeless in Ruined New Orleans

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

NEW ORLEANS: As she pushed a shopping cart of belongings through the still-life of the Lower 9th Ward, Tamara Martin knew only one source of shelter for this city's burgeoning homeless population: the thousands of buildings left vacant and rotting nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina.

Homeless squat in condemned dwellings; shelters shrink as homeless ranks grow

The Associated Press

  


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