Posted on 11/08/2012 3:02:54 PM PST by count-your-change
“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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