FEMA

August 23, 2007 - Today the Institute released a new report, Blueprint for Gulf Renewal (pdf), tracking the post-Katrina recovery. One of our key findings is that most Katrina money coming from Washington hasn't gotten to those most in need -- and the funding squeeze is stopping much of the Gulf Coast from coming back.

August 14, 2007 - The Associated Press reported yesterday that federal tax incentives for Gulf Coast reconstruction are being used for luxury sports accommodations:

August 3, 2007 - Facing South is still here in New Orleans, surveying the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as we approach the 2-year anniversary of the 2005 storms.

July 19, 2007 - At a hearing held today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, investigators released internal Federal Emergency Management Agency e-mails documenting that FEMA attorneys rejected environme

July 6, 2007 - Families in desperate need of housing while FEMA trailers moulder in distant fields. Homeowners waiting endlessly for checks to fund rebuilding. Habitable public housing complexes boarded up while affordable apartments disappear.

June 15, 2007 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency might have allowed -- even encouraged -- big insurance corporations to rip off taxpayers after Hurricane Katrina. But it certainly won't let John and Jane Q. Storm Victim get any more than they're due.

May 30, 2007 - State and local governments in storm-stricken areas of the Gulf Coast will no longer have to put up their own money in order to get federal rebuilding funds, thanks to the emergency war spending bill approved by Congress last week and signed into law by President Bush.