Homeless for the Holidays
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
In my pocket . . . not one penny
And my friends I haven’t any
Nobody knows you when you’re down and out
At the very same time that permission has been cleared for demolition of public housing units in New Orleans—at the same time the U.S. is burning through about $12 billion per month in Iraq—FEMA is planning to close the trailer parks in which displaced New Orleanians have been warehoused for the past 28 months.