Katrina Blacks Won't Leave Hotel Unless Paid
Re****t; Posted on: 2006-02-08 16:49:34 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer
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Katrina evacuees want money to leave hotel
(AP) A group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees staying at a Queens hotel want
it
to contribute $2,500 to each family as an incentive to move, but the
hotel's owners are questioning their obligation to pay.
Charlie King, a lawyer and a Democratic candidate for New York attorney
general who was involved in a meeting this week on the proposal between
hotel management and community leaders, told The New York Times in
Saturday's editions that the money also would help cover costs for
families
seeking permanent housing.
The owners of the hotel, Radisson J.F.K. Air****t, are expected to meet
with
the families' representatives... "What the hotel is wondering is why
private citizens are coming forward and asking the hotel for things that
are FEMA's responsibility," said Marc Leffman, chief executive of
Atlanta-based French Quarter Hospitality, which owns the hotel.
About 30 families remain at the Radisson, the last of about 120 Gulf
Coast-area families who arrived there after the hurricane.
Their rooms are being paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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