Chris Hall wrote:
> 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, ...?
Of course not. I didn't say I knew what the solution is, or what they shoudl
do, except think this thing through. I just thought the statement that they'll
rebuild the tourist industry but not build low income housing in vulnerable
areas is naive at best.
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