Are people planning a New Orleans land grab??

How will people who are displaced by the hurricane prove that they own their property???

Here's a comment from dailykos about that:

"...I'm imagining that some people are going to find themselves in the position of having nothing but their word and maybe the word of some witnesses to atest to the ownership of homes and property that might have been in the family for multiple generations. Lacking fingerprints on file somewhere, how will many people even prove who they are? And then there are the children newly bereaved who are too young to look after their own interests and might not even clearly know what their interests are.

It seems cold to be worried about the property rights when people are still waiting to be rescued, but I don't want to see people already displaced by a hurricane then dispossessed by a perfect storm of bank and developement interests.

by martianchronic on Sun Sep 4th, 2005"

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HERE on that topic. That link leads to a dailykos diary that provides an account of how California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and others took it upon themselves to rescue 150 New Orleans "refugees" and transport them to an empty Louisiana shelter that had been waiting 2 days [!!] for people from New Orleans and surrounding communities.

Maxine Waters-a remarkable woman!