After Hurricane Katrina the number of homeless people increased four times compared to the previous number. Natural disasters often make current housing situations untenable, and expensive repairs are often simply not feasible. Added to the destruction left by natural disasters are criminal problems such as robberies and other social problems such as the lack of basic services, insecurity and health problems. Disasters leave the middle classes close to poverty and the poor homeless. With this decline in quality of life, it is more difficult to solve the problem of homelessness and people end up waiting for help that may never arrive. This increase in the poor and homeless makes this population more vulnerable to future disasters (homelessness in the United States and natural