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WAFB 9News: New Orleans Residents Protest Road Home Program

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779101-745051-thumbnail.jpgThrough song, more than 150 Hurricane Katrina survivors share their pain on the steps of the State Capitol.

The lyrics they sing seem to represent the feelings of every soul present, souls who say they are tire of roaming.

"I have no home, so I roam from city to city," one voiced yelled from the crowd.

They all want to go home to New Orleans, and say the contractor hired to run the Louisiana Road Home program needs to make some changes.

"Here we are 19 months later, and they're still trying to work out the defects in the process," Mary Fontenot says.

These people belong to a faith-based group out of New Orleans called All Congregations Together or ACT for short.

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