The INDsider -> Nathan Stubbs THU, JUN 4 5:11AM by Nathan Stubbs

FEMA trailer for sale: $1

The federal government is now offering Katrina and Rita hurricane victims still living in FEMA trailers the opportunity to buy those homes for $1. (Begging the question why they don’t just give them away?). The L.A. Times reports:

The assistance comes just days after the official start of the 2009 hurricane season and one month after FEMA announced that it was ending the temporary housing program it started in the aftermath of Katrina.

The more than 3,400 people still living in FEMA trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi had faced eviction.

“We were going to have another homeless crisis on our hands,” said Laura Tuggle of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, a free legal aid program in New Orleans. “The fear among people was that one day they were going to come back to the trailer they had been living in and it would just be gone. There was so much anxiety. People worried they would have to buys tents.”

The sale of the trailers will end the most expensive emergency housing program in FEMA’s history. The agency provided more than 143,000 households with temporary housing units, mostly mobile homes and trailers, after the two major hurricanes.

FEMA typically provides emergency housing for no longer than 18 months, but officials repeatedly extended the deadline. May 1 was the final deadline to vacate, but many people did not leave.

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written by Poo Yie , June 04, 2009 - 05:36 pm

At that price, I will take two.

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written by BayouBoyToo , June 04, 2009 - 06:11 pm

Some suggested a couple years ago giving these trailers away to the occupants instead of having FEMA hire nearly a thousand people at $20/hr plus per diem and a leased Ford Escape to go around and check on the occupants every 30 days asking them what they were going to do -- stay in the trailer or move into other housing. The wisdom of the federal government for doing that was that some of the occupants might use the trailers for camps or other recreational use. Of course, that was before the health issues involving the trailers arose, which FEMA had been aware since the get go. Now, after how many millions of wasted tax payer dollars, they see the light. You can also bet for that $1 (which is a legal reason, of course)you have to sign away any liability of future health risks that might develop.

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written by Reginald Greene , June 10, 2009 - 10:12 pm

I haven't found any trailers selling for a $1 but I did join www.GovernmentAuctions.org and I bid on a good condition trailer for just $200. The site has lots of info and they even give you a 3 day free trial. Can't beat that!

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written by JOEANN MILLER , August 02, 2009 - 03:59 pm

I WOULD LIKE TO BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FEMA TRAIL THAT IS FOR SALE. BUT WHERE DO GO OR HOW CAN I BUY ONE OF THE TRAILER. WE FULL OUT ONE OF THE APPT. WHEN WE LIVE IN ONE. E-MAIL IS This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , WRITE ME 60087 JAVERY RD. SLIDELL,LA. 70460. THANK YOU AUGUSTINE MILLER AND JOEANN MILLER

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