More on Rebuilding Funding Crisis

This is only audio from the PBS Newshour, but the details still show a shocking incompetence (or some sort of scam -- it's hard to tell). I didn't know this, but the process of getting money to New Orleanians after Katrina was farmed out to a private company. With over 100,000 applicants, less than 1% of the applications have been processed. The process will take over a century at this rate.

New Orleans Road Home: report on problems with a program designed to bring residents back to New Orleans.

Here is some text from a Bay Area paper: Failures in New Orleans carry lessons for all The contractor is ICF from Fairfax, VA. They are administering the $7.8B "Road Home" plan to give grants to New Orleanians who are rebuilding.