Background checking + housing

[nanirobin]

HI all,

I am willing to coordinate the project to get folks moved into more permanent housing. What I need are people to help with the following:

Needs:
> identify a contact with red cross to get folks placed
> get contact names and numbers of other orgs that are tackling this project
>legal council to assure we are not violating any laws in doing background checks
> legal reference on how to write up contracts between people that are moving in and the person making the offer.
a: I know for a fact that you can't remove people from your own home in less than ninty days if you rent to them...does the same apply here?
> how to do background checks without spending a fortune..that goes both ways we don't want our displaced people setting up house keeping with a lunatic who drives them and the kids nuts too.
> Ideas of what I haven't thought of

I am rkitson@nc.rr.com please offer ideas and support.

I figure it will take about 200 people nation wide to pull this off without taxing anyone too much. Please let me know where you are and what resources you bring to the table.

Thanks,

Robin (a native of the ninth ward of New Orleans living in NC since 1975)

[val]

Nico Moon is the Admin. and she's not on right now but what you are offering is awesome! I will try and get the local area contact for the Red Cross cause I'm working on trying to coordinate daycare for the victim's children once they arrive at RDU.

I'm in Cary.

We'll get back to you shortly. Thanks so much for the generous offer of help!!!
Val

[kristasp]

I am willing to help any way that I can. If needed my husband and I can drive people (In the tampa bay area of FL) to housing destinations and we can get in touch with their loved ones for them.

We have a lot of relatives out of state so we have "circle" calling so long distance is not an issue. I will be adding a spot on my board about posting to have me contact loved ones, or they can email message and phone number. I am on line ALL the time.

My email address is hurricanekatrina@mailbling.com

I also have a message board http://www.freeadvertising.jrhost.net/missing/index.php and was trying to make some contacts with red cross earlier to help them enter people into the computer but no one could help me. I am still trying.

I think there should be 1 central location for people to look for loved ones and I want to combine all the lists out there into 1 big list, which I have already started typing.... There is just so much information out there that needs to be organized..... Any volunteers will be greatly appreciated, as well as ideas

Krista