Quotes by Bob Hebert

“It has to be smaller.”

“Having lived through the last year here, this is my advice to New Orleans and the other Gulf Coast towns: Dont make big camps with thousands of people, because it doesnt work. It takes a bad situation and, for many people, actually makes it worse.”

“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, theres no other place for many of them to go.”

“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, theres no other place for many of them to go.”

“I think the people who need to be concerned about that are the people that havent done anything in the last 18 months to find a place to live. FEMA requires active progress. And theyre within their rights in evicting people if they dont.”

“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.”

“Its very needed in the area. This gives kids another place other than the mall. It gives them alternatives.”