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- After Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans fled to Florida. Then Ian happened.
- Clayton 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms single wide manufactured home Lot-334 for Sale
- Katrina Cottage House Plans, Floor Plans & Designs
- Public Sales of Hurricane Katrina/Rita FEMA Trailers: Are they Safe or Environmental Time Bombs?
- Double wide on Brutus Dr for Sale
There is something going on here that neither the public nor those victims can understand; it eventually translates into frustration..but something deeper...something no one has been able to put a name and finger on... Those trailers just sitting there in Arkansas empty and unused is a deplorable sight. Maybe ousted scapegoat Michael Brown is the only one who would admit it.
I have been forced to draw the conclusion that this administration has shown in it's 2 major rebuilding projects that it is sadly lacking in leadership, communication and coordination. Although I give them an A in sales and marketing. I would love to hear the end result of this story. Is CNN working on interviewing government officials responsible/accountable for this obvious boondoggle. There's no question that it's evil and shameful..the real question is - what can we American citizens do about it? How can WE help get these people the trailers that they need and deserve...that have been paid for by their taxes and ours?
After Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans fled to Florida. Then Ian happened.
These issues are patched with vague assurances from private industry to do better, combined with a restriction on public-facing dialogue about the merits of mobile homes as temporary housing. But core policies must change, otherwise the nation risks continuing to reproduce injustice in its national disaster relief strategy, and inflicting a state of permanent disaster upon many people who have no way out. About 1,150 families in FEMA housing live in units the agency classifies as mobile homes and park models, which will be offered for sale at $5 and $1, respectively. FEMA expects to free up an additional 600 to 700 units from its inventory to donate through state and local governments and nonprofit groups, the administration official said. Individuals who previously bought units will be offered refunds.
Most sales have been successfully completed with the exception of three where the successful bidder defaulted on his contract. Two of the lots have been successfully reoffered for sale and FEMA has elected not to re-offer the units at the remaining site. Instead, FEMA has determined they are excess and are being offered for transfer to other federal activities or then to State Agencies for Surplus Property through the Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program. Paulison said the agency was on target to move everyone from the group sites by June 1 but was having “a lot of trouble” getting some of those displaced by Katrina to move again, even from cramped mobile homes that are often reduced to rubble in big storms.
Clayton 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms single wide manufactured home Lot-334 for Sale
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.
She appeared smug and skulking through the entire debate, wouldn't even look at her competitors when they talked most the time, and her responses were generally shallow and disingenuous -- just the hollow words of a hollow politician. Government incompetence, mismanagement and intellectual paralysis in dealing with the aftermath of Katrina is a national ongoing disgrace. It seems FEMA is unable to learn from its errors.I'll be stocking up my emergency kit with real skepticism about how much help FEMA might be if my home gets the big one. It was like watching the calvary coming to the rescue.
Katrina Cottage House Plans, Floor Plans & Designs
Perhaps FEMA ordered them because there were a lot of people OUTSIDE N.O. That lost their homes and who do not live in a flood plane and could use the homes. Susan, you just made a real good argument for not rebuilding major parts of New Orleans. Why should the rest of us taxpayers around the country continue to subsidize, through government aid, people's desire to live in inherently dangerous geographic areas such as below sea level in New Orleans?
How the trailers had made their way to North Dakota from Louisiana was a riddle. Back in 2010, FEMA donated several hundred trailers to the local Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa; it would not have been hard for the trailers to migrate again out of Turtle Mountain and into the oil fields. Shapiro was expecting to find oil and gas workers living in them.
The wool absorbs the formaldehyde, said D&D chief executive officer Bill Hanblin. Getting these units built without using much formaldehyde was one of the challenges, Schuback said. Now -- after nearly a yearlong respite -- the FEMA trailers are back on sale. Even if she sold it on the cheap to someone who was aware of the risks, who’s to say that person wouldn’t turn around and sell it as a home to someone else?
Horine still sees FEMA trailers for sale in Clinton from time to time. Three years ago, over a hundred of them appeared for sale on a nearby lot, with the stickers scraped off. “I went over there, just acting dumb, because that’s not hard to do,” Horine drawled.
Formaldehyde test kits were about $35 apiece, and they added up fast. Gillette ordered 32 of them — over $1,200 worth. When 30 of the 32 tested positive for high formaldehyde levels, she shared the information with FEMA — which, she said, did nothing.
It is estimated that the 308 sf model can be delivered on the Gulf for about $70,000 per unit including construction, which is less than the dispiriting FEMA trailers have been costing American taxpayers during their brief 18-month life span. The mobile homes that FEMA provides, in contrast, don’t conform to these trends. Emergency aid mobile homes are stripped down and often contain features that look like the more stigmatized “trailers” of the past, such as recognizable aluminum siding. We have loads of land/space in Texas not in flood plains...lets just get the trailers here so those in need have housing. Texas has taken in lots of displaced people, let's get them the housing they need. Then as a nation, let's do more than build 100 homes on television, let's rebuild the entire communities and get people back to their homes, their families and lives.
There are people in New Orleans, and there are even more who are trying to come back, and none of these people have any dependable housing or support whatsoever because of FEMA's appalling incompetence. It's as if they WANT New Orleans to wither and die. Indeed, many Ninth Ward residents believe that this is really their intention, even to the point of truly believing that the levees were intentionally blown up by the CIA or some such. These are not radical political activists pushing an agenda, these are normal everyday people who feel so abandoned by their country that they think they've been intentionally done harm. Saying "it's a shame" is putting it VERY lightly. FEMA is paying rent to keep the dang manufactured homes pastured!!!
And a massive class-action lawsuit filed by trailer residents against FEMA and the trailer manufacturers continued to work its way through the court system. 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. In these instances, mobile home residents’ self-made infrastructure cannot move with them, and they are often denied compensation for relocating these structures.
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