No Way To Treat Our People: FEMA Trailer Residents 30 Months after Katrina:
By the Louisiana Justice Institute and the Children’s Defense Fund
Source: Louisiana Justice Institute
April 30, 2008
“Nothing could prepare us for the sight of children running through the Baker, Louisiana FEMA trailer encampment during the middle of the school day. Where are the parents? Why aren’t these children in school? More importantly, why are all these families still here 2 1/2 years after Katrina…There is really only one answer to all these questions - our government has created several communities of disposable people post-hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These communities hold individuals who have no guaranteed right to return to their home - notwithstanding all the international conventions and treaties calling for same. We have created in Louisiana “Katrina tribes,” composed of individuals without permanent homes, subject to dislocation through relocation at the governments’ will…”