Having lived through the last year here, this is my advice to New Orleans and the other Gulf Coast towns: Don't make big camps with thousands of people, because it doesn't work. It takes a bad situation and, for many people, actually makes it worse.

It's very needed in the area. This gives kids another place other than the mall. It gives them alternatives.

There is housing out there. The problem is, a lot of it is unaffordable. For those who are disabled, or perhaps physically and mentally challenged, they have to wait until we have public housing.

I think the people who need to be concerned about that are the people that haven't done anything in the last 18 months to find a place to live. FEMA requires active progress. And they're within their rights in evicting people if they don't.

FEMA City is now a socio-economic time bomb just waiting to blow up. You throw together all these very different people under already tremendous stress, and bad things will happen. And this is the really difficult part: In our county, there's no other place for many of them to go.

FEMA City is now a socioeconomic time bomb just waiting to blow up. You throw together all these very different people under already tremendous stress, and bad things will happen. And this is the really difficult part: In our county, there's no other place for many of them to go.