Community Chat

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I was just on the phone with a cousin whose son works for FEMA. He told her that they have hundreds of trailers - that were specially ordered for this particular disaster because they could not use the camper trailers they had so they had to order actual mobile homes that can be used in the winter for the Sandy victims. Anyway, they have been delivered and when the people are offered them they are refusing because they want to put the trailers on their lot where their home used to be and that is illegal. They have to live in a trailer park where the trailer can be hooked up to proper sources of water, sewage and utilities like electric. So , because they can't have them on their lot they are refusing to take one.Many of these people are currently staying in hotels and FEMA is footing the bill, but my cousin's son said that will end if they offer you a cheaper and still very good place to live over the longer term and you refuse it. FEMA isn't going to pay for a hotel forever -why would anyone expect that? Why would you turn down a brand new mobile home to and chose to stay in a hotel room?