Posted on 06/03/2009 4:46:38 AM PDT by tobyhill
The Obama administration will announce plans today to virtually give away roughly 1,800 mobile homes to 3,400 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina who are living in government-provided housing along the Gulf Coast, officials said.
The administration also will make available $50 million in rental vouchers to income-eligible trailer occupants who move to targeted housing projects, and take over from Louisiana the job of helping residents find permanent homes, said a senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity before the formal announcement.
"We knew we needed to bring this program to a close," the official said. "We also want to ensure a humane and secure transition for all of them."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
“give away roughly 1,800 mobile homes to 3,400 families”
New math?
Hey, I want one. When my kids develop asthma from the mold I can sue for millions. That’s what they’re setting up, right?
...800 billion goes a long way
That was another Bush boondoggle.
Hundreds of those trailers ended up parked — empty — in southern Arkansas.
So what is the damn difference if the leeches just get their mail forwarded?
go to gsaauctions.com they are listed there for bid
The entire federal response to Katrina was a boondoggle. Instead of cowtowing to the left-wing media, Bush should have pointed out that the initial response was EXACTLY the same as what was done in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi for hurricanes. No federal money should have been spent sending trailers or handing out debit cards to those so-called "victims" that had consciously decided to stay behind despite strong warnings all week prior to the event.
The taxpayers in 49 states are not responsible for the mistakes made by those in 1 state - the Katrina response was the ultimate in federal welfare.
Duplex trailers?
I drove down there. A few months after Katrina. I planned on investing but I wanted to get ‘the lay of the land’ first. I left in disgust. These are the trailers that they wouldn’t allow in. The aesthetic cost was too high.
Or take a chain saw to a double-wide...
Yep. You can collect in year 2012 dollars, or I can write you a check for $15.00 right now.
One of them came to Farragut Square in DC. The people who brought it were whining about what crappy trailers they were. I told the guy that I've seen people living in cars on Indian reservations who'd be damn glad to have that 'crappy' trailer instead. Shut him right up.
I'm sure there will be more than one or two car owners per trailer...or more than one or two extended families.
Instant slums.
exactly and years later they are still whining for govt handouts because that is all these kind of people know...
“Instead of cowtowing to the left-wing media, Bush should have pointed out that the initial response was EXACTLY the same as what was done in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi for hurricanes. No federal money should have been spent sending trailers or handing out debit cards to those so-called “victims” that had consciously decided to stay behind despite strong warnings all week prior to the event.
The taxpayers in 49 states are not responsible for the mistakes made by those in 1 state - the Katrina response was the ultimate in federal welfare.”
There was no kowtowing. FEMA had done the trailers and housing assistance before.
FEMA information from 2004
FEMA And State Provide Housing To Thousands Of Displaced Hurricane Victims
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Release Number: 1539-288
» More Information on Florida Hurricane Charley and Tropical Storm Bonnie
» More Information on Florida Hurricane Jeanne
» More Information on Florida Hurricane Frances
» More Information on Florida Hurricane Ivan
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=15463
Excerpt
“Every day, more and more Floridians are moving into safe housing, bringing them one step closer to a permanent home,” said Governor Jeb Bush. “We will continue to work with FEMA until all the urgent housing needs are met.”
The 255,000 households, including some damaged more than once by the repeated storms, are those where the primary residence was damaged, damage was not covered by insurance, and damage was considered sufficient to make the home uninhabitable. Many of the residents have found alternate housing using financial assistance through FEMA’s Individuals & Households Program and aid from FEMA caseworkers in locating available housing units. Still, those in areas with little rental housing available because of the damage needed direct housing assistance from FEMA in the form of a travel trailer or mobile home.
To provide housing in those areas with few rentals available, FEMA and SERT sent teams to clear and prepare sites for travel trailers, identified commercial sites to lease, helped repair damaged parks so FEMA units could be placed in them, created a new type of sheltering park called “Emergency Group Sites” (13 groups of up to 200 travel trailers linked together by quickly installed utilities), and built or are building 11 new mobile home parks. The direct housing program is being made available for those in need while they make long-term housing plans.”
Please note the Florida location and reference to Hurricane Charley mentioned in the following article. The situations that people were experiencing in the aftermath of Charley and the reasons behind them are not unlike what transpired after Katrina.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601922.html
Also, you’re not seriously suggesting that the only state that needed help after Katrina was Louisiana?http://gulfcoastnews.com/Katrina/GCN_Local_News_Update.htm And by the way, we pay taxes here too you know. To what mistakes are you referring? Even if every single person in the city had evacuated before the storm, the devastating results to property and infrastructure would have been the same. As it was, 80% (400,000) of the population of New Orleans did leave the city before Katrina hit. You certainly can’t imagine that the mere act of evacuating would have guaranteed that all those people had a home to which they could return after it was all over? Believe me that was not the case.
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