Katrina Cottage

Why it failed - [1]

1. Almost all of us associated with KC advocacy failed to appreciate the difficulty of changing the way business is usually done, whether we’re talking infrastructure planning, zoning, housing finance or construction Lesson: system has inertia. We must be 100x better faster stronger.
2. As disaster recovery researchers note, the push in the wake of the trauma is to get things back to the way they were as quickly as possible. Lesson: don't work in acute trauma scenario - just trauma.
3. To many, smaller implied settling for less; and manufactured housing, no matter how sophisticated the design or the quality of materials, translated to “trailer park.” Lesson: OSE/OBI is not manufactured housing.
4. ‘It’s hard to think about ways to drain the swamp when alligators are biting your ass.’”