Friday, February 10, 2006

Thousands of FEMA motor homes stuck in Arkansas

There is an airstrip in Hope, Arkansas where close to 11,000 80-foot motor homes are stored. These motor homes belong to FEMA, and were purchased to serve as temporary housing for victims of hurricanes. FEMA has signed a two-year contract with the city of Hope to keep them at the airstrip for a $25,000 a month rental fee.

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posted by Diane at 7:46 PM 5 comments

5 Comments:

Here's my thinking on those trailers. If no one needs a home, or those from Katrina, which I doubt, but if everyone has a home and is safe and warm, then why not let the homeless people have the trailers. Why not build homeless shelter trailer parks and let people who have no home live there and the government help them get on their feet. Homeless people can't get state aide without an address, that will give them an address, and all those shelters, they pack four or five families into a room with cots and the children are so sad and the mothers are trying to nest and they can't and the husbands for the most part are not allowed and in some states the teenage sons are prohibited from staying with their moms. I say, make homeless shelters trailer parks with those trailers that are costing the government to store, why not make use of them.

By Blogger zelda1, at 7:06 AM  

Your point is a good one; however, all of the trailers are needed by Katrina and Rita victims.

By Blogger Diane, at 9:25 AM  

My friend and her husband just came back from a visit to NO, her family lives there, and her husband took videos of their families homes that were destroyed and of the other peoples homes and buisnesses. My point, in the video there were trailers parked all together as if they were being stored and in fact some of them, I think, were being stored and people were not qualifying for the FEMA help. Why?

By Blogger zelda1, at 7:01 AM  

Because the system is all screwed up. The people qualify, but the computers show them as not living where they do, etc.

Also, there has been a lot of difficulty in New Orleans over where to put the trailers. At first, FEMA said you couldn't park one in your own yard; they eventually backed down from that. But the mayor and the city council have been engaged in a fight over where to build the trailer parks; the mayor and FEMA were deciding on the locations without consulting with the council members, and they were using recreation parks, things like that.

There has also been a big flap, as I'm sure you've heard, over the NIMBY aspect of all this, and--in my opinion--a lot of people have been unfairly called racist. In Florida, after Andrew, I think, there was little planning and little law enforcement, and sure enough--people found their neighborhoods filled with guns and drug dealers.

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