Juliana L Holm wrote:
>Low cost housing in Houston, San Antonio or Baton Rouge will not support
>a tourist industry in New Orleans. If you are going to have a tourist
>industry in New Orleans, you need to build low cost housing there. These
>people will not commute from Baton Rouge. And pretty much all of New Orleans,
>except the areas where the rich will build or rebuild, is vulnerable.
>
>I'm not sure how you figure you can have a tourist industry and not build
>vulnerable housing.
>
>
You definitely don't need the full pre-Katrina population of N.O. (~500k
in the city proper?) to sustain just the tourism industry. You can't put
people back into the same housing without some modifications either to
the site, the transportation system, or to the actual housing design,
any of which will be expensive. Otherwise you risk spending a huge
amount of money to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Just
rebuilding "as is" will be incredibly expensive. Do you want to go
through the same scenario in 2006, 2007, 2008, ...?
Chris |
