297: This Is Not My Beautiful House

297: This Is Not My Beautiful House

Sep 16, 2005
It's the largest mass resettlement that America has seen since the Civil War, as over 400,000 people—victims of Hurricane Katrina—try to find a new place to live. From the Houston Astrodome to an abandoned New Orleans street, stories of people looking for home...and finding something else.

  • Prologue

    At the Astrodome complex in Houston, charities from Colorado and Florida and other states are competing to take in the hurricane's refugees. But Colorado, which offers the best package of any state, just can't get New Orleans residents to relocate there. (3 minutes) Homelessness • Housing • Natural Disasters

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Jeffrey Schwartz

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