Posted on 11/08/2012 3:02:54 PM PST by count-your-change
FEMA has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance and put 34,000 people in New York and New Jersey in hotels and motels. Still, city and state officials have not laid out an official plan with specifics to move the homeless into long-term housing in an already congested area.
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“The FEMA trailers will become the “long term housing”.”
This is so much worse than Katrina, because so many more people are impacted. Like New Orleans, many of these homes should never be re-built (especially in NJ); we could be seeing the same thing in another year (or month, or week). This is how tides and storms work...
IIRC, the Katrina FEMA trailers were uninhabitable because of some EPA standard....or something like that.
Better link: Google... ABC NEWS FEMA TRAILERS
Formaldehyde after the trailers had set in the heat and humidity for a while.
A trailer park is coming to your neighborhood. Excuse me, that would be “manufactured housing”.
I thought the FEMA trailers were all still in use by Katrina victims.
The big question will be, “What about skirting for my trailer?”.
I live in Arkansas. In a lot of municipalities here, we would simply call that a new subdivision. LOL
Most Katrina trailers were never in use and ended up being sold for pennies on the dollar. Any used now will have to be new and meet FEMA standards.
With indoor plumbing it’s called upscale housing.
Hell, I would take one right now.
i still remember the H.U.D. trailers in Elmira after the 72 flood... lotta them had Red Lights in em
Seize the Cisco (Chinese) cargo containers at the port and let the New Yorkers and New Jerseyites live in them. Remember if these containers are good enough for the deployed troops these steel boxes ought to be good enough for the general citizenry, IMHO.
After being used they'll be scrapped anyway but still it beats walking up several flights of stairs to a dark, cold apt.
HUD supports small business?
These containers are being used to build modular housing, very nice even if unusual.
seemed like it at the time...
“IIRC, the Katrina FEMA trailers were uninhabitable because of some EPA standard....or something like that.”
Only the Cavalier models had problems. These were the low end travel trailers.
FEMA travel trailers consisted of a very mixed stock ranging from Cavaliers (basic model, no holding tanks) to much higher end Jayco’s etc. which were really nice.
The more permanent mobile homes did not have any issues as far as I knew.
At one time I managed about 600 of these things for FEMA.
They are better than nothing (by far) and most people that got them were grateful and took decent care of them. However more than a few did come back heavily abused.
Just a few years ago I was in Campbellsville Ky just a few minutes away from where I live. There was a Fleetwood camper factory there and they were crushing brand new never used Fema trailers thousands of them. I inquired all over town and was told they could not be sold under any circumstances. One year later that factory shut down and it sits empty today.
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