First lady visits "Katrina Cottages" on Mississippi coast

[sabra]

http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6127279

First lady visits "Katrina Cottages" on Mississippi coast

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. First lady Laura Bush toured "Katrina Cottages" today (Thursday) as part of a one-day visit to the hurricane-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The relatively inexpensive homes are designed to give thousands of Gulf Coast families still living in government-issued trailers in Mississippi and Louisiana a more homelike atmosphere.

Ocean Springs Mayor Connie Moran who toured the demonstration cottages with Bush and architect Bruce Tolar says he has tremendous respect for Mrs. Bush, her dedication to education and reading.

Bush spent about 30 minutes touring two completed units, one 300 square feet and the other 500 square feet.

Bush said little during the tour, most of the time listening to Tolar's comments about the project.

[JuniperLea]

1. She was probably confused

As to the square footage. I doubt she has a clue what it's like to be middle class or poor. Her dumbass husband sure doesn't.

[jilln]

2. What good is education and reading

if you don't use it to think critically and help others?

I bet one of her comments was, "Looks like this worked out pretty well for the people!"

(Yes, I know the original was BARBARA Bush.)

[BOSSHOG]

3. "Let them live in cottages"

No doubt her beautiful mind accepts 500 square feet as just hunky dory for the folks in South Mississippi.

Strange she is dedicated to education and reading and her husband is a fucking idiot.

[sabra]

4. "one 300 square feet "

and how many people are living in this "cottage" ?

[BOSSHOG]

5. Families of four continue

to live in FEMA trailers which are smaller then that. I equate these cottages as substitute housing for hurricane victims as reforming social security.

[yardwork]

6. Sounds like a prison cell - 30 feet by ten.

[54anickel]

9. But they're "cute" and catching on with "deer hunters"

http://www.mississippirenewal.com/info/dayJan-11-06.html

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People are loving it," Spelling said Wednesday. "I can't tell you how many people have come by already and said they personally want one. I even talked to a guy who wants to make it his deer-hunting cabin." Developers who've toured the cottage have told Spelling and Cusato they're considering the design for high-end beach communities on other coasts.

That's not exactly what Cusato has in mind, but she takes it as affirmation that she achieved her purpose: To prove that affordable emergency housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina didn't have to be a trailer that ends up in a landfill in 18 months. She downsized a perfectly scaled Mississippi-style coastal cottage, complete with an inviting porch. She created clever built-in storage under porch benches and beneath bunk beds. And she gave the sparse interior space a roomy feel with oversized windows.

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The designers have been encouraged by the response of state builders, developers and even manufactured housing executives who want to use the cottage designs to help replace the 65,000-plus homes lost to the hurricane in Mississippi.

"And it could catch on nationally," says Cusato. In fact, if the reception this first version has received in Orlando is any indication, says Cusato, Mississippi "can lead the nation in what could be a revolution in affordable housing."

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[Dr.Phool]

7. Did anyone down there tell her to go fuck herself?

Like they did Cheney?

300 square feet? That's my living room.

[Doctor_J]

8. To paraphrase what her MIL famously said,

"I bet they liked the Superdome better than this"

[llmart]

10. "she said little during the tour".....

probably catatonic from all the Xanax she's snarfing. She's about as articulate as her asshole of a husband. What a waste.

[Olney Blue]

11. For God's sakes, haven't they suffered enough?