By: Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
FEMA trailer parks seem to be providing the backdrop for growing mental health problems among Gulf Coast residents ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That is where suicide attempts are 79 times the national average. More than two years after the storm devastated the region, survivors continue to reel from the pain, thanks in part to the anxiety created by a sluggish recovery process.
"The mental toll of a lack of permanent housing is indescribably great," writes Joshua Norman of McClatchy Newspapers in a story from early October. "FEMA trailer parks are therefore the epicenter of any post-Katrina mental-health crisis."
The mental wear and tear is enough to drive the sanest person mad
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