Thursday, June 29, 2006

 

FEMA Cleaning Up Trailer Free Riders


There is confusion in Mississippi about who should be kicked out of their flipping trailers or non flipping mobile homes. It is all about that distinction between long term shelter as opposed to short term emergency housing, which has looser eligibility requirements. See the discussion in the post of April 27. Suffice here to note that is sort of related to need and how the paperwork was completed.

In Mississippi some 40,000 families live in FEMA trailers or mobile homes. Some are the long kind and some the short. Eligibility, that is, not the trailers. Now FEMA needs to clean up by evicting the short and moving the trailers/mobile homes to storage at airfield or equivalent. FEMA got off the first 500 eviction notices (of 3,000 planned) but there was a fuss. An official said the difference between long and short had not been explained because in the agency’s experience storm victims could not comprehend such distinctions.

Anyway, in what is not a policy change but rather just a delay to dot i’s and cross t’s, FEMA is now trying to locate the 500 evicted to tell them they can stay for a while. Problem is they don’t know where they went. Hopefully a notice mailed to the last known address will suffice. And hopefully the dotting and crossing can get done soon, as you can’t have people living in those 240 square foot trailers if they don’t need to, i.e. just for the fun of it or whatever.

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