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While Katrina Victims Suffer, FEMA Trailers Look for Takers
posted 03-08-07
Many Katrina victims still cannot go home because there is no home there.
FEMA bought over 145, 000 trailers after Katrina and most of them through no bid contracts.
Now they are looking to sell many of the trailers while people still suffer from the storm.
Apparently rules prohibit placing any of the trailers into a flood zone. You know the places where it might flood if a huricane marches through.
Also the trailers will not be offered to any place hit in the February tornadoes since the president didn't declare them disaster zones.
The trailers will likely be auctioned and possibly sold at forty percent of their original cost to the government in small lots to prevent harm to the recreational vehicle businesses. Forget the poor people who need an inexpensive home.
I'm also betting that those who need a cheap home (which as their own property they probably could move into a flood zone, will not be in a position to get one of them. Otherwise, these FEMA trailors could recreate whole New Orleans neighborhoods that are now devastated.
Of course, the news media will denagrate those neighborhoods once again as they have done in the aftermath of the storm. Even though, just lately a city planner found that pre-Katrina New Orleans was a very successful city at offering her inhabitants free time and culture. Free time and culture for po' folks? What a disaster. (Link to post on article by city planner about the success of pre_Katrina New Orleans is here.)
FEMA bought over 145, 000 trailers after Katrina and most of them through no bid contracts.
Now they are looking to sell many of the trailers while people still suffer from the storm.
Apparently rules prohibit placing any of the trailers into a flood zone. You know the places where it might flood if a huricane marches through.
Also the trailers will not be offered to any place hit in the February tornadoes since the president didn't declare them disaster zones.
The trailers will likely be auctioned and possibly sold at forty percent of their original cost to the government in small lots to prevent harm to the recreational vehicle businesses. Forget the poor people who need an inexpensive home.
I'm also betting that those who need a cheap home (which as their own property they probably could move into a flood zone, will not be in a position to get one of them. Otherwise, these FEMA trailors could recreate whole New Orleans neighborhoods that are now devastated.
Of course, the news media will denagrate those neighborhoods once again as they have done in the aftermath of the storm. Even though, just lately a city planner found that pre-Katrina New Orleans was a very successful city at offering her inhabitants free time and culture. Free time and culture for po' folks? What a disaster. (Link to post on article by city planner about the success of pre_Katrina New Orleans is here.)
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