Home-in-the-Box
Santa Clarita's answer to the need for affordable housing?

No, the boxy structure pictured here is actually temporary housing that is intended to lure teachers back to New Orleans.

The state of New Orleans, the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the city of New Orleans and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have partnered to offer 250 of these two-bedroom modular housing units, fully furnished and rent-free, for New Orleans-area teachers.

The units will be installed on school property at the Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board sites.

"There has never been a better time for the best and brightest teachers to return to New Orleans," said Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco in a statement. "We are doing everything in our power to provide affordable housing so good teachers can return to the classroom, where New Orleans children need them most."

At $56,000 each, these units look like they will be the newest butt of jokes on big government solutions.