Milwaukee Katrina Shelter Will Close at End of Month: [View All]

[jane_pippin]

From today's Journal-Sentinel:

(Nancy) Mondy's search for housing and employment has taken on a greater sense of urgency, with word Tuesday that the Milwaukee-area shelter for Hurricane Katrina evacuees will close at the end of the month.

Since it opened on Sept. 8, the Tommy G. Thompson Youth Center at State Fair Park has housed roughly 400 evacuees. Nearly 250 still called the center home on Tuesday, five weeks after they arrived from the Gulf Coast.

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The challenge now for the people who fled New Orleans and those assisting them will be to find housing for the evacuees.

Roughly 40 units in the Highland Garden public housing project in Milwaukee will be available for evacuees, likely by the end of the week. Another 15 housing units for families will be opened in the North Lawn housing project and another five in the South Lawn complex by early next week, according to City of Milwaukee housing officials.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct05/362583.asp

This is what I don't understand: People are actively trying to find permanent housing--both the evacuees themselves and people working on their behalf--but instead of staying where they are as they search for housing they're going to move them somewhere else? I read the article twice and I can't find the reason they are closing the shelter.

Help me out. What am I missing/not getting about this?