George Touart
George Touart
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It's all about recovery, reconstruction and new construction. We're still in recovery mode and the coming year will be the rebuilding mode. Right now, housing is our biggest concern. There's just no outlet for affordable housing.
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We have 8,000 to 10,000 homes that were destroyed and haven't been rebuilt. Another 2,000 to 3,000 still probably have to be torn down, and several thousand people are still without roofs.
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What we went through is exactly the same as what you're facing. It's just more widespread there. Ivan hit three counties here and Katrina hit three states there.