The housing is not here. Some people, not ten miles from me, just got out of tents. Everything around here is full and I'm a ways from the worst hit areas. Houses all the way into western Florida were destroyed...all along the coast.
That's why in my post I exempted the Gulf Coast. For those of the evacuees who ARENT in that area of the country anymore, there is no excuse.
I know this because I work in the apartment industry. Around the rest of the country there is and has been plenty of housing. One of the reasons FEMA made this rule (and exempted LA and MS, I believe) to eject people from hotels was that apartments WOULD be paid for, but hotels cost far more and there is available apartment housing. There's no reason for someone, say in Seattle, to not be in an apartment. Jobs? That's something else. It depends on where you are, what previous experience you have and how crowded the market for that particular skillset is in the area.