15 Aug 2007
By Alix Spiegel
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, some former residents of New Orleans are still struggling to put their lives back together. One family, the Mattios, spent eight trying months after the storm in a single motel room in Baton Rouge, among prostitutes and drug dealers. They finally moved into a small, dark, but affordable, apartment nearby.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12811664
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