Louisiana Flood Victims Struggle to Find a Place to Shelter (Houston: apartment complex, crime)

[Jack Lance]

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. — Keisha Taylor, a 37-year-old mother of four, has spent three nights in two different shelters since her family fled the flooding at their Baton Rouge apartment complex. And she doesn’t know how many more nights they will be sleeping on cots inside the downtown arena where hundreds sought shelter.
Taylor probably could stay with relatives in White Castle, a town about 30 miles west of Louisiana’s capital city, but three of her kids are enrolled in Baton Rouge schools that could reopen next week.
“This is where I live. I need to be home,” she said.
Taylor is one of thousands of people across southern Louisiana displaced by catastrophic flooding and now struggling with where to live.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana...112731287.html


Question: If they came here looking for shelter and to relocate would you welcome them ? Should Houston invite them to "evacuate" or relocate to Houston ?

[shortel]

Just remember what happened with katrina and they decided to bring a bunch of them here.

Moving them east or west is a terrible idea. They need to be moved NORTH until hurricane season is over.

[Ghost Town]

Originally Posted by shortel

They need to be moved NORTH until hurricane season is over.

People from north probably won't agree with you
Also there is south direction

[txdemo]

This thread should turn out well.

[shortel]

Actually their is plenty of hard working good people that have been hit very hard by this. Its the people who expect a hand out from the government that are the problem.

[texas7]

Why is this even bringing up Katrina? That caused a lot of hardship on a lot of people for various reasons. Has the city of Nola offered any shelters for Louisiana citizens??

[ipuck]

Has LA offered anything to Houston in the last couple of floods?

Katrina refugees ruin so many areas in Houston it is beyond sad what happened.

[rdz1979]

Oh wow, enough with all the talk about how Katrina refugees destroyed Houston. Please, there are good and bad people everywhere and thankfully the majority are good, hard-working people. As are the majority of people from LA. Wonderful people with an amazing culture. I love both northern and southern Louisianans, especially the food. I say let them come and enrich the Louisianan culture that already exists here.

[ipuck]

Originally Posted by rdz1979

Oh wow, enough with all the talk about how Katrina refugees destroyed Houston. Please, there are good and bad people everywhere and thankfully the majority are good, hard-working people. As are the majority of people from LA. Wonderful people with an amazing culture. I love both northern and southern Louisianans, especially the food. I say let them come and enrich the Louisianan culture that already exists here.

They sure "enrich" houston all right. Multiple neighborhoods turn into crime zones. Thousands of generational welfare recipients that we will be supporting locally by us.

For every 1 that became a productive member of this city, there were 49 others that stand true to my paragraph above.

No thank you.

[txdemo]

Originally Posted by ipuck

For every 1 that became a productive member of this city, there were 49 others that stand true to my paragraph above.

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