Posts Tagged ‘katrina’

Program To Help Families After Katrina Comes To End

Its funding dwindled because of tainted . “We had 40 houses where we installed contaminated in 2007 and 2008, so we’re going back and redoing those. We’re doing it all with contractors and not with volunteer labor …

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Toxic Chinese drywall brings down Katrina rebuilding program

Operation Helping Hands will gut, rebuild homes that got the bad drywall

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Chinese drywall forces Hurricane Katrina rebuilding group to premature end

Operation Helping Hands will spend their remaining money, about $2 million, gutting and rebuilding 41 homes tainted with the toxic drywall

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Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers – Housing Wire

The Louisiana attorney general filed a lawsuit against 23 companies alleged to have been involved in the manufacturing, distribution or installation of defective drywall produced in China and used to rebuild homes after hurricanes Katrina and Rita …

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Habitat for Humanity Used, Distributed Chinese Drywall in New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina (NewsInferno)

Chinese drywall was apparently used in more than 600 New Orleans homes built by nonprofits, such as Habitat for Humanity, following Hurricane Katrina.

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Special report: Chinese drywall in New Orleans (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Hurricane Katrina survivors are battling a new foe: tainted Chinese drywall in the walls of their rebuilt homes.

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