The New York Times:

The city’s official blueprint for redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina, to be released on Wednesday, will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like, no matter how damaged or vulnerable the neighborhood, according to several members of the mayor’s rebuilding commission.

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Mike Tidwell:

To encourage people to return to New Orleans … without funding the only plan that can save the city from the next Big One, is to commit an act of mass homicide.

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(via The Poor Man)