Quotes by Matt Fellowes

“Its really death by 1,000 cuts. Its just stunning hearing the stories of people trying to get ahead. Its a Herculean effort.”

“I think that (auto) dealers prey on everybody. Its just that low- income folks are armed with less information.”

“There needs to be a vision at the federal level ? a vision for what the city of New Orleans is going to look like and whats going to happen to the 600,000 households that have been displaced.”

“The city is certainly broke and it doesnt have the citizens today or the businesses to afford to rebuild on its own schools and services like transportation.”

“The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses during their job search is exactly the type of program that would be successful in employing the 7.5 million people unemployed every day in this country.”

“The French Quarter and Uptown, you see life basically as it was before the storm. Its eerie, because life really is normal in those neighborhoods and then you cross over the Industrial Canal and enter the lower Ninth Ward or eastern New Orleans, and it looks like a bomb just went off yesterday.”

“Its very hard to get access to those trailers, and very few people want to hook them up in their driveway and live next to the shell of their house.”

“Everyone Ive talked to in the banking and insurance community says that will be a signal that the market can act upon.”

“Were six months now after the storm, and there are still large swaths of [New Orleans] that look like they did a month after the storm. Its just inexcusable.”