The Road Home program has been a disaster from the beginning. Governor Kathleen Blanco deserves a lot of the blame, but ICF, the organization that's been contracted to run it has really screwed it up, and screwed New Orleanians trying to rebuild their homes and their lives. It would be one thing, however, if they were just incompetent. But as events from last Saturday (June 30) suggest to disrespect and willful neglect. As the Times-Picayune reported, Road Home tried to do a mass closing at a hotel, but left people in long lines, out in the boiling midday sun. Worse, however, was that ICF officials only bothered to bring the lines of people into the hotel when media photographers showed up. Until then, nobody seemed to care.
For some follow-up, check out today's T-P editorial and the op-ed piece by staff photographer, John McCusker, who photographed the lines outside the hotel and was so sadly reminded of the lines at the Superdome.
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