But other efforts, like building community shelters for people in mobile-home parks or in areas with slab housing that lacks basements, can be costly.
About 10,000 soldiers and their families live in the concrete slab housing similar to that all over Czechoslovakia or in barracks.
Landry said "Texas Brine will pay for air monitors in homes on slabs because natural gas can accumulate in slab houses.
At the eight-acre, Bayou Corne sinkhole in Assumption Parish, owners of slab houses are waiting for methane-gas monitors to be installed in December.
But Penn South, with its stolid redbrick, concrete-slab housing stock, is clearly a safe, successful place.
Like many former Eastern Bloc cities, Belgrade is surrounded by vast tracts of drab, concrete-slab housing, but Art Nouveau buildings give its small historic heart an Austro-Hungarian charm.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Before he began appearing at film festivals and collecting literary awards, when he was just another resourceful punk from Russia's rust belt, Vassily Sigarev had a job delivering prostitutes to their customers in the concrete-slab housing blocks of Nizhny Tagil.
Gilbert St. Germain, 66, raised his home on Louis XIV Street, also in Lakeview, three feet, plowing $300,000 into a slab brick house he paid $58,500 for in 1977.
In Rikuzentakata, the city that lost more people than any in the prefecture, a Buddhist priest in a purple robe rang the bell at a temple overlooking an empty slab where houses once stood.
Cochon Butcher also does one of the best muffulettas in town, at $12: it's a toasted sesame bun oozing oil and stuffed with a slab of house-cured Italian meats topped with olive salad.
