Kalin said his mission was to encourage American officials to abide by a set of UN principles on “internally displaced persons” that say “you must start with the most needy, you have to find ways to reconstruct housing that is affordable.”
Reports from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provided to USA TODAY, show it has approved $4.5 billion worth of infrastructure projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Only about $1 billion of that total has been spent.
Much of the rest is sitting in state accounts waiting to be parceled out to the local officials responsible for the rebuilding work, slowed by a complex tangle of local and federal rules.
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