ABSTRACT
Among the 2000 Katrina evacuees housed in our university gymnasium, we try to find a house for a family of four grandmothers. They reject offers from agencies to place them in a retirement centre because they refuse to be separated from one another and a grandson with them. They like a house we find but ask, ‘Where is the grocery store? drug store? bus stop?’ They reject the house because none of these are close telling us their local Walgreen’s clerk knew them by name and the details of their medical needs.
