The Washington Post on Sunday had a very insightful article about the disparity in the recovery in Biloxi. You can find it at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/24/AR2007112400616.html
More than two years after the storm, the highly touted recovery of the Mississippi coast remains a starkly divided phenomenon.
While Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has hailed the casino openings as a harbinger of Mississippi's resurgence and developers have proposed more than $1 billion in beachfront condos and hotels for tourists, fewer than one in 10 of the thousands of single-family houses destroyed in Biloxi are being rebuilt, according to city permit records. More than 10,000 displaced families still live in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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