1. If you were asked to improve and redesign the U.S. hurricane response in terms of evacuation housing efforts and short-term housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, what would you propose? Your answer here requires that you review and discuss the flaws of the current U.S. hurricane disaster response and evacuation policy. You also need to consider how the governmental response to Hurricane Katrina proceeded.

Were the reforms that took place in the DHS and FEMA enough to correct the problems with the Katrina response? If a Katrinascale disaster were to hit New Orleans next year, what has been done since 2005 to provide for the needs of those who are unable to evacuate the city? Has the United States learned its lesson from its mistakes in the original Katrina disaster?