- WASHINGTON (Xinhuanet) --
Only 43 percent of all New Orleans, Louisiana, evacuees living in emergency
shelters in Houston, Texas, said they would move back home, and as many
- 44 percent - said they planned to settle elsewhere, a poll published
on Friday showed.
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- Of those planning to return, many said they would look
to buy to rent somewhere other than where they lived, and only one in four
said they wanted to move back to their old homes, according to the survey,
which was conducted by the Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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- Most of them who did not plan to go back to New Orleans
are already living in their new hometown, the survey found.
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- Fully two in three of the 44 percent who would not return
said they planned to permanently relocate in the Houston area, which isnow
home to about 125,000 New Orleans evacuees.
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- The poll found that the evacuees would start their lives
with virtually nothing. Seven in 10 currently do not have a savings or
checking account, and just as many have no usable credit cards.
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- The poll surveyed 680 randomly selected evacuees in Houston
from Sept. 10 to 12, and has a margin of sampling error of puls orminus
fur percentage points.
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- About 1 million people were displaced from the Gulf Coast
region devastated by Hurricane Katrina, which pounded Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama on Aug. 29 leaving hundreds dead. Enditem
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- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/17/content_3501821.htm
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