Amid Recovery Efforts, a Rift Threatens to Grow

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10 - In a neighborhood that had not flooded, near orderly streets of dolled-up antebellum homes that now seem almost a fantasyland, a construction crew was chewing up a park the other day to install trailers for the legions of homeless people. And then abruptly, work halted.

Blocking the path of a dump truck was an older woman so infuriated by the trailers that she was mounting a personal protest and refusing to move. Only when the police arrived did she relent, according to several workers who were there. But the mayor and the City Council have stepped in, and now several politicians are trying to use their influence to block some of the trailer parks.

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