Spotlight on Housing Effort

Grant Wagner and Xianghui Weng, both Mosaic team members, are spearheading the housing portion of this Mosaic project. Their website, "Mosaic-Housing", has several interesting links that help evacuees searching for a place to stay, as well as interested volunteers trying to find a way to help with this problem. The links attempt to serve the following purposes:

Provide evacuees with access to a database that provides various searchable housing options organized by region, keywords, ect.

Provide volunteers with up to date information pertaining to the types of housing needs that exist in the NOLA area.

Connect willing volunteers with evacuees through a database that matches needs with capabilities.

Also in the works are links, which describe what stage each area of NOLA is at in terms of rebuilding (demolition, foundation, electric), and a database that provides a comprehensive list of all Mosaic project housing contacts. Recently the housing group has been in contact with a non-profit profit organization COVER Home Repair, run by Simon Dennis, which is attempting to send a group of volunteers to the gulf coast and aid in the rebirth. Grant and Xianghui are making great progress and should see some tangible results in the near future with the incorporation of the COVER Home Repair organization.