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It makes me sad and angry to think that the government has not stepped up to the plate. From the moment Katrina was seen on the radar everyone, from the top to the bottom, made grievious errors that cost lives, and altered tens of thousands of others for the worse. Our government has been a pathetic joke in regards to Katrina victims. Now thousands of people will be out on the streets with no place to live and what is our government doing to help? Why in the world would someone build their house behind a mud wall holding back a river to begin with? FEMA should setup temp housing communities for those displaced out of harms way and rezone those high risk flood areas for use as community park and such.
As we do with all of our customer agencies, we provide full and complete descriptions, including known deficiencies, if such information is provided by the owning agency. However, many of them have been designated as "scrap" and until not too long ago were being sold as such. They seem to go on sale in batches, and the trailers in last batch were sold online by the government a short while ago as scrap. However, there is new batch of various FEMA Trailers, campers and mobile homes for sale and these DO NOT seem to be designated as scrap, but are simply being sold with a warning that they are manufactured with formaldehyde and have not been tested. Just know that prolonged exposure to formaldehyde is very deleterious to your health, and, that a recent federal court decision ruled that government is not immune from lawsuits related to this issue. Nonetheless, various brands of travel trailers/campers are being sold , including Gulfstream Cavalier, Coachmen Cascade, R-Vision Trail-Sport, Monaco Holiday Rambler,Forest River, Recreation by Design, Fleetwood Spec and Merit, Pilgrim Spec, Crossroads Zinger, Jayco and others.
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It was amazing seeing the convoy of all these trailers one right after another as far as you could see. I think the sadest thing of all is that absolutely no progress is being made by the Federal Government to help these people and we are staring the 2006 Hurricane Season right in the face. In less than 6 months we will have a Gulf of Mexico that is warmer than last year, a still devastated coast line, and a FEMA organization with no credibility or success in helping these victims. I can only shudder to think what 2006 has in store for us. Why were those trailers ordered if they knew they couldn't be used on the Gulf coast? Makes absolutely no sense to spend tax dollars for them to sit in a field in Ark., and paying that state money for rent to have them there.
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They will sit and the elements will get to them and they will become unliveable. If they can't get it right on a natural disaster level, how do we hope that they can get it right in a major "man made" disaster that they kept reminding us "may" come. We have been let down by those we will need to count on in disasterous times. On a recent drive across country I was witness to hundreds of these FEMA trailers being transported.
In this way, temporary inconveniences become permanent problems. As far as the hotels go, I think FEMA should stop paying for them. The federal Gov. responsibility is too replace levy's, and repair government buildings, schools, etc.
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The fact that some people were still living in them because they had never gotten enough money to rebuild their homes, or had run afoul of unethical contractors, was just an unwanted reminder of how far the city still had to go to recover from Hurricane Katrina. GSA also placed the health warning notice from the HUD regulations, which is applicable to the sale of new manufactured housing units, in each sales listings. As provided in Title 40 of the United States Code and implemented by the Federal Management Regulations , federal agencies are required to report excess personal property to GSA’s Office of Personal Property Management for screening and redistribution to other federal agencies. The presence of so many people in the flimsy temporary housing complicates preparations for the hurricane season because those families must be evacuated in the event of a threatening storm. The Katrina Cottage collection includes attractive small house and Cottage style plans developed in response to the need for alternatives to the temporary and charmless FEMA trailer after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
In June 2006, Congress appropriated $400 million for an alternative housing pilot project based on the Katrina Cottages. Mississippi has delivered 2800 cottages inspired by the Katrina Cottages to people that lost their homes in the storm. Louisiana has completed construction of 500 units featuring designs from the Katrina Cottage Series. Even unoccupied, the trailers were costing nearly $130 million a year to store, according to federal records, but what to do with them had become a loaded question. Congressional hearings held in spring 2008 established that the trailers were unsafe. In February of 2009, the CDC started a $3.4 million pilot program designed to find people — especially children — who had lived in FEMA trailers and track the their health over time.
Seems to me somebody got paid a lot of tax payers money and noone is being held accountable. I agree, it was ridiculous for FEMA to order trailers that can not be used. Please continue to keep the situation in the eye of the public. My house is in the part of New Orleans we've started to call the "sliver by the river," the narrow strip along the Mississippi that didn't flood. So I'm typing this from the study of my 100-year-old home, with its hardwood floors and high ceilings, feeling lucky and guilty and numb. One of the prototypes — the D&D Hybrid Park Model — is two bedrooms, one bathroom with walls insulated with 100 percent sheep wool.
What we need is some prefab permanent housing that will allow people to stay in them when the wind blows a little--so we don't have problems when we have a thunderstorm. It’s been the better part of a century since well-crafted bungalows, cottages and other small-scale dwellings defined “home” to most Americans — and since designers and builders produced them on a large scale. The metrics of housing value tend to be about size and price per square foot, with big being better and small being for losers. “Affordable” translates to either “subsidized,” which in turn translates to “projects,” or to “mobile homes,” which implies “trailer trash.” Either way, anything small and affordable threatens to lower market values. While this cannot persist as a permanent mindset, it’s nevertheless a perspective that continues to corrupt conversations about community planning and development. The Office of Personal Property Management’s Sales Program is an approved Sales Center under the Federal Asset Sales Program , one of the initial e-government initiatives.
The Corps of Engineers came out and inspected the location. The property has city utilities at the front with the capacity to handle the 50 to 60 trailers that could by placed under FEMA specifications. Local contractors are available for any installation work required. The Corps sent the report to the FEMA office in Baton Rouge. Or set up the Mobile Home city just north of New Orleans on vacant land. Seems like they don't want the people back in New Orleans.
I cannot fathom the hardships the people of the Gulf Coast face in trying to get their lives back together. Perhaps if the government had more people who took action instead of accusations, the people who truly need help would be able to get on with their lives. It is a shame that everyone needs someone to blame, and that officials cannot get past the red tape of who should be doing what. I think this just goes to show that FEMA really didn't have a plan when they ordered those mobile homes.
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Has any one investigated this part of the issue? The article that I read and I do not recall where I read it, seemed to indicate it was a political battle with New Orleans politicians. I have not seen any discussion regarding this on CNN. All of these trailers sitting in a pasture in Arkansas will go to waste.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has selected GSA as its Sales Center. ORLANDO, Florida - Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40,000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the U.S. Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top U.S. disaster official said on Wednesday. I went down to NOLA this past December, and I can tell you that even the FEMA trailers they have there aren't being used. I was helping clean up a church in the Upper Ninth, and across the street was a whole huge parking lot worth of FEMA trailers, each one could've housed a family -- and in late December, they were all still empty, and no one knew when they would become avaliable.
The FEMA signs were "proudly" hung in the windows of the trailers. Shame on the people who are letting this go on. I hope none of your family members are never in need of a place to live. I find it hard to wrap my brain around this whole situation. To know FEMA is the one poised to help out those in need down in the Gulf Coast has become more sad as the days drag on.
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