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43% of Evacuees Want to Go Home

Friday, 16 September 2005, 14:14

From BREITBART.COM:

WASHINGTON

Fewer than half of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in shelters in the Houston area want to go home again, according to a poll by The Washington Post and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Forty-three percent said they want to move back home when they can. About the same number of evacuees (44%) said they want to permanently relocate, and most of them wanted to stay in Houston, said the poll published Friday.

Maybe because they are finding out that there are opportunities out there other than living on a welfare check in downtown New Orleans?

Or maybe they just don’t trust the city, state, or federal government anymore in case of another hurricane.

The slow response to the storm strained faith in government. Six in 10 said the experience has made them feel that the government doesn’t care about people like them.

The evacuees polled, all from New Orleans or elsewhere in Louisiana, also said:

  • More than half of their homes were destroyed. Two-thirds were renting their homes and a third were owners.
  • Almost three-fourths don’t have insurance to cover their losses.
  • More than half didn’t have health insurance, a usable credit card with them, or a bank or checking account from which they could withdraw money.
  • Nearly three-fourths heard before the hurricane hit that an evacuation order had been given; a fourth did not.
  • More than two-thirds said they didn’t evacuate because they didn’t realize how bad the storm and its aftermath would be.
  • More than half (55%) said one factor was that they didn’t have a car or a way to leave.

    • Maybe opportunity will knock for them wherever they end up. Hopefully than can make better lives for themselves too.

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