wasting houses in New Orleans...

A CNN news item showed black home owners in New Orleans
confronting a big white constucto. These white
(de)structos where bull dozing down wrecked houses. They
apparently did not have legal authority to do so.

I wonder if unauthorized house destruction would be paid
for by insurance?

Would the city of N.O. send the bill for house destruction
to the owners?

How would be allowed to buy the soon to be vacant lots?

The CNN folks were talking of the owners being "poor
folks" and I've got to wonder if they even owned the
houses? If they did, what collateral or equity would they
have?

It seems like these poor folks have been shafted again...

Consider this: the Federal response to Hurrican Katrina
was so piss poor that Fidel Castro felt the need to send
ships with aid...