1 in 5 murders in Houston involved a Katrina evacuee...
Houston Grumbles as Evacuees Stay Put
Many Katrina victims aren't leaving their new city, but the costs and crime anger residents.
August 21, 2006
HOUSTON — Almost a year after Hurricane Katrina caused the country's largest mass migration since the Dust Bowl, as many as 150,000 evacuees still live in this city, and increasingly many are indicating that they no longer plan to go home.
To many Houstonians, that's overstaying the welcome.
Houston's homicide rate has shot up 18% since the storm, and police statistics show that one in every five homicides in the city involves a Katrina evacuee as suspect, victim or both.
More than 30,000 evacuee families in Houston still live in government-subsidized housing, and a Zogby International survey sponsored by the city found that three-fourths of the adults receiving housing help were not working, raising questions about how they will survive when federal aid runs out.
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