Katrina housing programs updated
The Sun Herald
May 14, 2009
Post-Katrina housing programs funded with federal recovery dollars should provide enough units within about a year for those still displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Housing Director Gerald Blessey said Wednesday, but he added that a return to pre-Katrina populations and economic recovery is further off for South Mississippi.
Blessey said local governments need to think strategically to bring in commercial development, offering such incentives as tax credits for projects that are of high quality and create jobs.
“Even next year or 2011, we’re not going to quite be back to our pre-Katrina population, and we should have been growing,” Blessey said. “That to me is the challenge in our economy,”
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