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To: TimF who wrote (266503)	12/29/2005 7:04:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575719

Again your focusing on one wealthy district and one poor district and ignoring the overall picture. The Garden district was effected less then most of the city. Lakeview was effected to about the same degree as the 9th ward, in other words near total destruction. Yes, Lakeview suffered nearly as badly as the 9th Ward because it abuts the 17th St Canal. However that does not change the fact that for varying reasons, the people in the 9th ward and NO East are in worse shape........the latter not only because it sits below sea level but also because the houses were built on slabs rather than raised up. And traditionally, the poorer areas of any large city in this country are in the least desirable parts of that city......where rivers overflow, levees break, next to factories or excavation sites. And when a poor neighborhood does sit on a desirable piece of property and/or has valuable/historic housing stock, it usually doesn't remain poor for very long.......those are the neighborhoods you read about going through gentrification like Georgetown did in the 1950s or Morgan Circle in the 1980s or Adams Morgan in the 1990s. And why did the Garden District escape most of the flooding.....its because the wealthy typically live in the best parts of town......the highest elevation or next to a lake or the ocean or on top of a hill The next to a lake (or other body of water) part increases your risk of flooding. The higher elevation of course does the opposite. Tim, if you live next to a lake you don't live so close that the lake can flood you out. NO is unique. It has lakes above sea level and neighborhoods below sea level that abut each other. It's a bad combination. And think about these poor people, some of them save all their lives to buy a house; not just after 5+ years out of school like most college graduates. They barely have enough money to keep them up.......they can afford only minimal home insurance. They've lost most everything and many of them will never get it back. That doesn't diminish what others are going through but the people in Lakeview, white and black alike, have a much better chance of coming back from this tragedy than the people in the 9th ward or NO East. And let me add, the gov't response to the problems resulting from the hurricane has been very slow to date in NO, TX, LA and MISS. I am begining to think the reason is because the gov't doesn't know how or doesn't want to fund the reconstruction. I think they may be hoping that the people will simply go away. ted