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Katrina Victims Will Not Have to Vacate Trailers (get to buy them for $5 instead)
New York Times ^ | June 3, 2009 | Shaila Dewan

Posted on 06/04/2009 7:34:13 AM PDT by Zakeet

Hurricane Katrina victims around the Gulf Coast who were told to vacate their temporary trailers by the end of May will instead be allowed to buy them for $5 or less, White House officials announced on Wednesday.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development will also give the 3,450 families still in trailers or temporary housing — including many elderly, poor and disabled people — priority for $50 million in permanent housing vouchers. The money for the vouchers was appropriated by Congress last year.

Some of those living in trailers are destitute and have no other housing. Others, including many people in New Orleans, are living in trailers outside their damaged homes, while waiting to complete repairs that would allow them to move back.

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Almost two-thirds of those still in trailers are homeowners who are trying to complete their repairs. Many said they had been bilked by contractors or had received grants from the Road Home, a taxpayer-financed program to help rebuild houses, only in the last few months.

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Mobile homes will be sold by the government for $5, and smaller “park model” travel trailers will go for $1. The smallest travel trailers, which do not meet the government’s definition of “manufactured housing,” and any units whose formaldehyde levels exceed safety standards, will not be sold.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofema; fema; katrina; trailers; welfare
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The trailers were only one part of FEMA’s housing assistance program. Tens of thousands of other families moved into apartments that were paid for by the agency.

1 posted on 06/04/2009 7:34:13 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

the disaster that keeps on giving.

How many cities have been hit by hurricanes and are still getting massive funding for it nearly a decade later?


2 posted on 06/04/2009 7:36:00 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Zakeet

Good return on our money. Jeepers!

I wonder what our return will be on GM?


3 posted on 06/04/2009 7:36:34 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: Zakeet

And this is the federal government that wants to run your health care. Are we totally INSANE???


4 posted on 06/04/2009 7:36:47 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Zakeet

The new, new ninth ward.


5 posted on 06/04/2009 7:36:52 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: Zakeet
What a country!


6 posted on 06/04/2009 7:36:59 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: GeronL

Your tax dollars hard at work.......


7 posted on 06/04/2009 7:37:06 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Zakeet

Whern GM flops will we get to buy the cars for $5.00?


8 posted on 06/04/2009 7:38:12 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Zakeet

Of 750,000 claims filed by Texans as a result of last year’s hurricane, Ike, FEMA has denied 680,000. This story is getting NO press, but once again Texas suffers. Lets not forget who came to the rescue of Kartina victims before the Feds got there.


9 posted on 06/04/2009 7:38:25 AM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: Zakeet

And another temporary program becomes permanent.

Buy for $5, sell for $2500 and make a killing.

Disgusting.
Those trailers are taxpayer property and should be returned for auction.


10 posted on 06/04/2009 7:38:29 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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Others, including many people in New Orleans, are living in trailers outside their damaged homes, while waiting to complete repairs that would allow them to move back. .............................................. They better put pontoons on the trailers while they wait for their (hopefully, stilt) homes to be built.


11 posted on 06/04/2009 7:38:30 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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To: Zakeet

Man, I need to move to hurricane alley so I can get free housing one day.


12 posted on 06/04/2009 7:39:01 AM PDT by dirtboy
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They may as well sell/give away the trailers. BO is making sure no one will be able to afford to use one for vacations.

An added bonus is he will be adding more votes for his 2012 election.

13 posted on 06/04/2009 7:39:21 AM PDT by Dustbunny ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. " Ronald Reagan)
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To: devane617

You have to be from chocolate city.


14 posted on 06/04/2009 7:39:47 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: Zakeet

Typical government semantic exercise. They are moved off the government rolls by giving them the trailer.

One does wonder whether the “victims” will complain about the trailer they are “buying”.


15 posted on 06/04/2009 7:41:08 AM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

is this supposedly stimulus?

half of them will be sold or made into scrap metal a year after the ownership changes hands.


16 posted on 06/04/2009 7:43:47 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Zakeet

Whata cluster^%$#.


17 posted on 06/04/2009 7:46:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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One does wonder whether the “victims” will complain about the trailer they are “buying”.

That was MY first thought - they'll complain about what is given to them.

18 posted on 06/04/2009 7:47:21 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: SJSAMPLE

>>Those trailers are taxpayer property and should be returned for auction.<<

The problem is that they CANNOT be sold for auction by the government. They used to (we watched tons of these auctions). but someone decided that they have a formaldehyde problem and the sales stopped.

So what will happen is that, like you said, the “new” owners will sell them for profit AND sue the government for health problems related to living in one.


19 posted on 06/04/2009 7:47:33 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: dirtboy
...so I can get free housing one day.

But are you the right color and/or minority?

If you're a white male, I don't think, you qualify, unless you're homosexual.

20 posted on 06/04/2009 7:48:18 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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