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Housing Groups Decry Government Response to Katrina and Call for New Action

WASHINGTON, DC-National housing advocates brand the federal government's role in assisting those displaced by Hurricane Katrina insufficient. They call on Congress and the White House to make immediate changes to address the problem of those left homeless in the Gulf Coast region.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on December 01, 2005

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WASHINGTON, DC-Pointing to the thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims who are still without sufficient housing three months after the disaster, representatives from several national housing organizations have called on the government to take action to better address the housing crisis. National Low Income Housing Coalition president and CEO Sheila Crowley noted that one of the outcomes of the disaster is that a spotlight was placed on the absence of a solid system of addressing homelessness.

“Unless a fundamental shift in public policy is made, we are setting the stage for a groundswell of new homelessness in this country,” Crowley said. “If we have many people from the Gulf Coast showing up at shelters across the country, it will be a testament to the ultimate failure in federal government response. It was decided by the federal government long ago that people who are victims of disasters are to be taken care of, and the government hasn’t done that.” According to NLIHC, tens of thousands of hurricane victims are still living in hotels and shelters.

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