TWO YEARS LATER, SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS

Hurricane Charley's victims in Punta Gorda still struggling to find homes

By BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press
Posted May 26 2006, 12:25 PM EDT


PUNTA GORDA -- Almost two years after Hurricane Charley destroyed his low-rent apartment complex, Carl Riggs is still struggling to find some sense of normalcy.

The one-legged Vietnam veteran, who is on disability, lives in a government trailer on a gravel lot behind the Charlotte County jail. It's one of about 200 trailers set aside there for hurricane victims.

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