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Article: Jobs are plentiful in New Orleans, but housing is not.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- January 24, 2006
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Byline: Howard Witt
NEW ORLEANS _ Home for Chuck Wonycott these days is a cramped metal bunk with a thin foam mattress deep in the bowels of an old merchant marine ship docked at the Port of New Orleans. His closet is a narrow locker. His dining room is the ship's mess hall. His bathroom resembles a bus station's.
It's a long way from the comfortable home he used to share with his aunt in eastern New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina filled it with 5 feet of water. But Wonycott, 42, a waiter at Antoine's Restaurant who spent four terrifying days with his 83-year-old grandmother waiting to be rescued from the New Orleans Convention Center before ending up ...