Hundreds wait Saturday on Road Home closings

Hundreds of people waited in line at the Marriott in Metairie to close on their Road Home grants Saturday, June 30, 2007. The line snaked through the hotel, out the front door and around the building.
John McCusker / Times-Picayune

Hundreds of Road Home applicants found themselves in a winding line outside a Metairie hotel Saturday, waiting out an apparent bottleneck in a marathon effort by a state contractor to close 900 grants in a single day.

Raymond L. Dorch of New Orleans waits in line outside of the Marriott in Metairie to close on his Road Home grant Saturday, June 30, 2007. Hundreds of people waited in a line which snaked through the hotel, out the front door and around the building.

STAFF PHOTO BY JOHN MCCUSKER

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