Strong Desire to Return Home, but Nowhere to Go

James and Delphine Lindsey, ages 79 and 70, are so strapped they have to make do with a diet of red beans and pig tails. They have family nearby to help, fellow evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, but if they lose their federal housing assistance, which they have been warned may happen any month now, things could get dire.

“We’re not going to be put out,” Ms. Lindsey insisted, looking around at her small one-bedroom apartment in Houston’s working-class Fifth Ward, a grocery cart parked in the corner beside her wheelchair. “We’re not going out on the street. No, no. We’ll just have to start the penny-pinching, that’s all.”

from the NY Times