FEMA Closes Hurricane Katrina, Rita Trailer Parks

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that it is closing 13 trailer parks in Louisiana where victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are living.

More than 6,400 households will be affected. Many of those who are being asked to leave their trailers say they can’t find other housing. Davida Finger, a staff attorney with the Loyola Law Clinic who handles hurricane-related cases, says she was “deeply concerned” about the ability of people to find homes.

Housing in the area is more costly than it was before the hurricanes. U.S. Housing and Urban Development data, analyzed by a local research center, shows an average rent of $764 for an efficiency in the metropolitan area and $990 for a two-bedroom.

The plans, however, will not affect families living in trailers in front of their hurricane-damaged homes; at least 25,000 such trailers remain, according to a FEMA estimate.

Source: The Associated Press, Becky Bohrer

By REALTOR® Magazine Online

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