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Steve Anlian, the Urban Institute's senior associate in Yerevan, Armenia, suggests that housing voucher programs used overseas by the U.S. State Department and Agency for International Development to help those displaced by natural disasters and civil wars could be successfully employed to aid Katrina evacuees.

For Gulf Coast residents who survived Hurricane Katrina but no longer have homes, finding somewhere to live is an immediate concern. Steve Anlian, the Urban Institute's senior associate in Yerevan, Armenia, says housing vouchers are the answer. "As officials figure out how to respond to under- or uninsured home owners who are eligible for aid, experience abroad, in developing countries, argues strongly for multi-state housing-purchase vouchers."

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