![]() ![]() We just been here maybe about six months. And they told everybody you have to - you could stay here - and propane, I believe, for 18 months, and then now we have to start paying for it.ĪMY GOODMAN: Have you been here for 18 months?ĭONNA AZEEZ: No. You just got to really be wise in spending it, because the cost of living is very expensive.ĭONNA AZEEZ: Oh, I have to buy my own propane.ĪMY GOODMAN: Did you always have to buy it?ĭONNA AZEEZ: No. Everything else was like slop.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, where do you get the money to buy the food?ĭONNA AZEEZ: Well, I get food stamps. Only had a couple of things that taste good: the fish and the chicken. We had a cafeteria over here, but they just closed it April the 6th.ĭONNA AZEEZ: They say enough people wasn’t going to eat it, but the food was horrible. And it’s a lot of wear and tear on your mind.ĭONNA AZEEZ: Oh, well, I buy my food. And some of the trailers, like the trailer I’m living in right now, is very small. You’ve got to deal with all the bugs, caterpillars coming all up on the porch, going up in your house. All that got destroyed.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, how did you end up here?ĭONNA AZEEZ: Well, my brother - it was like 13 of us in a van, and we all came in my brother’s van, and he brought us up here.ĪMY GOODMAN: So, did you end up first at the shelter and then here?ĪMY GOODMAN: And what’s the trailer park like?ĭONNA AZEEZ: It’s horrible. ![]() And I had a shed in the back with my washing machine, my dryer and a lot of other stuff. Prior to being kicked out of the trailer park by the private security guards in charge, we managed to speak Donna Azeez, who lives at the trailer park.ĭONNA AZEEZ: Couple of my things got flooded. The trailer park has been described in Louisiana press as “FEMA’s dirty little secret,” in part because of FEMA’s tight control over who has access to the park. We had a chance to take a rare look inside Renaissance Village, a trailer park on the outskirts of Baton Rouge that houses more than - close to 2,000 Katrina evacuees. Earlier this month, Democracy Now! went down to Louisiana. ![]() AMY GOODMAN: We are going to continue now to look at New Orleans and the problems facing citizens who are displaced by Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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