Post-Katrina Cottages Get A Lukewarm Welcome
Well it would seem that the "powers that be" are not fans of these housing units (more info here) produced in mass to get folks out of trailers. According to the Los Angeles Times:
But now that the "Mississippi cottage," a small shotgun-style house inspired by the original, is rolling onto the coast, things have become a little more complicated: The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency provides only the cottage—not the land—and cities have imposed rule after rule to keep qualified residents from settling into them.
Local officials, it seems, fear that the brightly colored cottages will become permanent fixtures in their hurricane-ravaged neighborhoods. They say the cottages, which range from 400 to 840 square feet and cost as little as $34,000 to build, will hurt property values.
They fear these housing units will "hurt property values." WTF. Maybe the residents are more worried about not living in formaldehyde contaminated trailers. Anytime I hear the "property value" issue injected into the conversation my only conclusion is that the government officials are really just saying we want rich people to live there.
