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  1. Posting by Witold Rybczynski looking at lessons from past attempts to provide emergency shelter and housing to victims of disasters.
  2. Article examining government's plan to provide transitional housing for tens of thousands of hurricane evacuees.
  3. Special report from The Times-Picayune ... "It's only a matter of time before South Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. Billions have been spent to protect us, but we grow more vulnerable every day."
  4. “The U.S. does not need higher levees; it needs another civil rights movement.” Article by Ben Wisner about the lessons that we can draw from the human catastrophe taking place after Hurricane Katrina.
  5. Listing of shelter locations across U.S. for Hurricane Katrina victims. Site include maps of available shelters and updated status information.
  6. Page outinling AIA Disaster Assistance Program to offer help with damage assessment and long term recovery as the organization has done in previous major natural disasters.
  7. Situation reports and power outage maps from the DOE's Office of Electricity, Delivery and Energy Reliability. Covers impacts on municipal electrical power as well as impacts on petroleum and gas industry.
  8. Multi-organizational partnership among some of the nation’s leading non-profit disaster relief organizations to maintain a joint shelter resident registration, shelter tracking module, and service site database.
  9. This is a housing services hub for Katrina victims. You can offer up housing space for victims, or hurricane survivors can search for available rooms/houses/apts/etc.
  10. Map "intended for the use of people affected by Hurricane Katrina who have or are trying to find information about the status of specific locations affected by the storm and its aftermath".

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