Nat LaCour is finally back at his house in New Orleans. The question is when his house will be livable. It’ll take tens of thousands of dollars of rehab work, he says.
And, at that, LaCour’s still better off than many of his fellow Crescent City citizens -- thousands of whom still haven’t come home, because they can’t. Four years after Hurricane Katrina hit, there are no homes to come to in New Orleans. LaCour believes some powers-that-be in Louisiana don’t want those African-American citizens to return."
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