You really think that any president could help 49K people in a couple days after this happened? How many people and time do you think it would take just to visit each one of those apartments, assess the situation, come up with a plan and arrange proper logistics support?
Well, Bush’s administration took over from a useless mayor and governor within 1 day after Katrina, then rescued 20,000 people from flooded homes within 2 days, then evacuated 40,000 people out of New Orleans within 4 days of Katrina
Check the Katrina timeline
Barry, Bloomie, and Staypuft Christie are now at 4 days and counting...what’s their plan, Stan?
re: How many people and time do you think it would take just to visit each one of those apartments, assess the situation, come up with a plan and arrange proper logistics support?
That would not be necessary nor at all practical under the time constraints. Take a random sample to access the situation and needs and plan accordingly.
Since this is public housing, the local agency that is running the housing project should already have data on who is living there. Will there actually be more people living there than approved? No doubt, but it shouldn’t be hard to add some numbers accordingly (add in all the baby daddies) and get to work on meeting the needs of the people there.
They expected Bush to do it in New Orleans.