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It appears that the people swept under the rug over two years ago are starting to peek out from under the edges as the rug begins to shrink...

In the last month, a second displacement of hundreds of people has become more pronounced as the process of transferring the FEMA program to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development got under way. The shift between the two agencies has not been seamless with many local landlords, who accepted FEMA money before, opting out of the program that will require tenants to start contributing to their rent payments March 1. So far, 48 landlords representing 68 properties have said no to the HUD program, said Spurgeon Robinson, the director of Harris County's Disaster Housing Assistance Program, or DHAP.

Here's a theory:

1) Subprime bubble bursts.
2) People want to move out of houses to apartments
3) Apartment owners want to raise rent rates from the Fed handout levels
4) Government agencies offer an opt-out with the handoff of these Katrinas
5) Apartment owners opt-out
6) Katrina overflow gets the boot

Instead of these folks stuck on the streets of New Orleans, they're now stuck on the streets here.

Sucks that they're stuck on any streets, but what will it take to at least get them "back home" so they can at least have the national spotlight on rebuilding their lives there?

I mean, you don't see Brad Pitt waving his dick and wallet around in Houston, right?

Let's pull together and get these people back to within reacharound range of Brad Pitt.