Gulf Coast

August 22, 2008 - Facing South reported earlier about the affordable housing crisis on the Mississippi coast that continues to slow post-Katrina recovery in that state. But Mississippians aren't the only ones whose post-Katrina housing needs are not being met.

August 22, 2008 - Three years after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi's battered coast is regaining population but still lacks affordable housing for its poorest residents, reports USA Today. The article goes on the say:

August 22, 2008 - Trouble the Water, directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, Zeitgeist Films, Opens August 22

August 5, 2008 - The closing of FEMA trailer parks, hastened by unhealthy levels of formaldehyde in the trailers, has highlighted continued problems faced by Katrina evacuees three years after the disaster: the lack of affordable housing, inadequate social safety nets, and the risk of falling into homelessness.

August 1, 2008 - CNN reports that FEMA officials were subjected to sharp questioning in Thursday's joint congressional hearing that examined how FEMA supplies meant for Katrina and Rita victims sat unused and were ultimately marked as surplus and distributed to other states and federal agencies.

August 1, 2008 - A bipartisan commission held a hearing Thursday to investigate illegal housing discrimination practices following Hurricane Katrina. The day-long hearing held in Houston, entitled "The Re-Segregation on the Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina," represents the second leg of the new commission's five-city investigation on the state of fair housing in America.

July 30, 2008 - The Times-Picayune reports that repeated changes in rules for the Road Home recovery program have made it more difficult for applicants to collect the same grants they were once promised by the program.