[url]http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1734 011[/url]
March 16, 2006 â€â€On a bleak stretch of gravelly pasture not far from the airport in Baton Rouge, La., 573 white aluminum trailers stand in rows. The dreary site, home to 3000 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, boasts a utopian name: Renaissance Village...Federal law entitles disaster victims to temporary housing for up to 18 months, and after a series of devastating hurricanes in Florida, this period was extended an additional six months. But FEMA officials say they don't want people at Renaissance Village to get too comfortable...
Magee, like many at the site, is from New Orleans's lower Ninth Ward. She worked in day care before Katrina, but she is unemployed now; she spends much of her day watching television in her trailer with her three young children. The oldest, 5-year-old Sapphire, is one of the hundreds of children who doesn't go to school. Magee said no one explained to her how to register.
March 16, 2006 â€â€On a bleak stretch of gravelly pasture not far from the airport in Baton Rouge, La., 573 white aluminum trailers stand in rows. The dreary site, home to 3000 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, boasts a utopian name: Renaissance Village...Federal law entitles disaster victims to temporary housing for up to 18 months, and after a series of devastating hurricanes in Florida, this period was extended an additional six months. But FEMA officials say they don't want people at Renaissance Village to get too comfortable...
Magee, like many at the site, is from New Orleans's lower Ninth Ward. She worked in day care before Katrina, but she is unemployed now; she spends much of her day watching television in her trailer with her three young children. The oldest, 5-year-old Sapphire, is one of the hundreds of children who doesn't go to school. Magee said no one explained to her how to register.