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What Every Katrina Victim Should Know
Assistance is available to help with your money, your health, your home and your job

If your life has been turned upside down by Katrina, figuring out just where
to go to get that assistance can be daunting.
Here are some of the key ways to access assistance relevant to five key
areas in your life: your money, your home, your health, your job and your
kids.

Your money

If you need immediate cash assistance You can apply for disaster assistance by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362).
You can also register online at www.fema.gov.

Families in need can also call the Red Cross 1-800-975-7585 to apply for aid. You may be entitled to receive up
to $26,200 in grant money from FEMA.HOPE Coalition America also offers free financial counseling and
assistance to individuals and small businesses affected by disasters. For more information you can call:
1-888-388-HOPE (4673).

If you don't currently have a photo ID or ATM card, you may still be able to cash checks and withdraw cash at
your bank. Most banks in affected areas have waived the usual documentation. To find out what banks are
open and what services are available, you can either visit www.fdic.gov or call 1-877-ASK FDIC.

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Katrina Survivor Alerts

Alerting survivors of Hurricane Katrina who either wish to return or have already returned to New Orleans, to news and
issues relevant to the ever changing post-Katrina New Orleans environment

The American Red
Cross Scandals

The American Red Cross has an
estimated $60 million in funds
to help Katrina victims recover.
It's called the "Means to
Recovery" program. It is
supposed to allocate a
maximum of $20,000 per
family to cover occupational
costs, housing, furnishing,
personal living needs and
health costs. This could cover
anything from eyeglasses to a
used vehicle to education costs.

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U.S. Corps Cover Up

The American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) has convened
a special committee to examine
allegations that their
administration helped the US
Army Corps of Engineers cover
up the Corps' mistakes in the
New Orleans flooding.

These serious allegations are
about public safety in New
Orleans and nationwide.

It does not serve the American
people to keep issues of public
safety and government policy
behind closed doors.

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Disaster Housing
Assistance Program

Purpose
This Notice revises the Disaster
Housing Assistance Program
(DHAP) Operating
Requirements to reflect that
rental subsidy payments under
DHAP will not commence until
December 1, 2007.

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Saving Affordable Housing in New Orleans

New Orleans public housing residents have been fighting for over two years to
return to their homes. Many of their units were minimally damaged by the storm,
but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has shut them
out. HUD plans to demolish most available public housing units and replace them
with mixed-income housing. While there are good arguments for mixed-income
housing, HUD's plan calls for far fewer total units of affordable public housing, and
it completely ignores short-term housing needs. The inevitable result will be
thousands of low-income residents—most of whom are Black—pushed out of the
city.

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Woman Admits Defrauding FEMA of More Than $26,000

While many American families who endured the wrath of Hurricane Katrina struggle from day to
day for an existence, unable to get the assistance needed to start a new life, there are still some
people who find ways of defrauding the government of huge amounts of money.

Lechall Bridges pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to filing false claims with
the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA), announced U.S. Attorney Richard B.
Roper of the Northern District of Texas. Bridges, 45, faces a maximum statutory sentence of five
years in prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution. She is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Solis
on March 12, 2008.

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Open Letter to Maxine Waters
RE: the demolition of public housing in New Orleans

November 9, 2007

Dear Representative Maxine Waters,

As human rights and housing rights organizations working
around the world, we applaud the efforts you have taken to
address the brutal situation facing residents of public and low
income housing in the United States. Your initiatives,
including your statements regarding the right to return for
those displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the
congressional bills you have sponsored, demonstrate your
commitment to this important issue. Yet, we remain deeply
concerned over the state of housing for low and moderate
income Americans, and are particularly disturbed over the
pending demolition of over 3,000 units of public housing in
New Orleans.

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