MS state-wide recovery needs a healthy, affordable Gulf Coast

by Leigh Graham · 2009-05-06 07:00:00 UTC
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According to the state's insurance commissioner.  And the missing ingredient thus far?  Affordable housing!

Efforts to rebuild affordable housing and make homeowner’s insurance affordable in Mississippi’s Gulf Coast counties must become a priority if those three counties are ever to fully recover from Hurricane Katrina, State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says.
“If the Coast doesn’t come back, the rest of the state won’t come back,” Chaney said on Monday.
Chaney, addressing the Starkville Rotary Club on Monday, noted that 16 percent of the state’s population lives and works in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties, and little has been done since the initial year following Katrina to make substantial progress in rebuilding the communities in those counties.
“There is very little that has been done on the Coast since the initial year of cleanup,” said Chaney.
A major problem is a lack of affordable housing and the necessary insurance policies homeowners need, Chaney said.

Somebody get this guy on the Poverty in America lecture circuit!  Finally, a genius in elected office!  (Appointed office?)

I'm flying home from TN today.  Diane's got my back this afternoon.  Consider showing her non-profit HEAR US some love so she can keep criss-crossing the country as an advocate for homeless kids and families.

Leigh Graham
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