As you may or may not know, 2005's Hurricane Katrina has left thousands of New Orleans residents homeless and living in tents, under highways and anywhere they can seek some form of shelter. This alone is fucking devastating. We should all be outraged at a government that denies its citizens shelter.
Whether you're rich, poor, dark-skinned, or white as vanilla ice cream, shelter is a
BASIC. FUCKING. RIGHT.
Along with food and water, this is what we as humans need to survive.
Well, not only is the government refusing to shelter its citizens, it has also made plans to demolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) trailers which have provided shelter to 50,000 families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Not only that, but now the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to demolish about 4,500 public housing units at four of the city’s largest complexes and replace them with mixed-income neighborhoods.
Instead of remodeling existing public housing, new units will be erected a available to 'mixed-income' families. (read: the new housing units will be so expensive, only middle and upper-class citizens can afford to live there)
Do you know what I call this?
I call it RICH PEOPLE FUCKING OVER POOR PEOPLE .
And this isn't the first time it's happened. The wealthy have in recent years made a point of buying up property in traditionally low-income, inner-city neighborhoods, only to resell it to wealthy investors looking to reside in the heart of 'downtown'.
More displaced, poor homeless people. The government couldn't give a shit less.
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