<p>I signed up to house a person through a subset of my professional organization. They are setting up a website to match people in this same profession who have been displaced. I am hopeful that they will do a good screening process, but also, as this is a comparatively small group (by scope, compared to other housing matches) it should be a less daunting task.</p>
<p>Another alternative - Bowdoin College in our area is focusing their Katrina efforts on the HBCU’s of Xavier, Dillard and Tougalou looking to offer Visting Professorships to some of their faculty for spring 2006. I noticed Villanova is considering similar. We have contacted Bowdoin to offer housing to a prof/small family as we have a second master suite plus spare room.</p>
<p>This might be an option for some; just of an individual faculty member if your space is more limited than ours.</p>