Administration to Reveal Plans for Katrina Housing Transition

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

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."

The sale option comes weeks after the trailer program formally ended May 1, and after Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said they could begin officially referring cases for eviction June 1.



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[uppityperson]

2. So all you need to do to get a cheap trailer is

have your home and community destroyed by a hurricane, live in one for almost 4 yrs, and for $1 or $5, you can own your own home!

Stopping my cynical nature, I am glad that they are going to sell this for cheap to people who need them. I really hope this administration gets FEMA back together again.

[sandnsea]

3. Terrific news

and the only response is spam. I gave it nearly an hour before responding in disgust. I guess people would rather believe the report that Obama was going to put everybody in the streets. Sad.

[babylonsister]

4. Excellent. This admin is continuing to try to right so many wrongs

from the previous admin. :thumbsup:

[superconnected]

10. Yes. Obamas adminstration made me proud again today. The bush admin and fema

did practically nothing.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. hard to believe its almost 4 years later... n/t

[Mojorabbit]

6. I hope these trailers

aren't the toxic ones Fema provided after the storm. I hope these trailers will be located near where these people were from so they can participate in their original community instead of a trailer park far away and I hope these people who have been through so much finally have a place to call home.

[Xenotime]

7. What a wonderful gesture of love. To give somebody a new home..

Now these people have hope.

[No Elephants]

8. Another mess Bush left for Obama. I hope those poor people get back to their homes somehow.

[Algorem]

9. Whuht?I thought Brownie took care of all that stuff a long time ago.