Texans Moving Into More Than 1,000 Mobile Homes Provided By FEMA
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Release Number: 1791-259
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AUSTIN, Texas -- More than 1,000 manufactured homes are now occupied throughout disaster-affected areas, giving displaced residents a "place to call home."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has challenged itself and its partners, including contractors, energy companies and others, to install manufactured housing as quickly as possible and get people, whose lives were disrupted by Hurricane Ike, into these homes.
FEMA has installed, on private sites or in commercial mobile home parks, more than 1,000 manufactured housing units; and of those, more than 400 have been made ready for occupancy just within the last week.
An additional 400 mobile homes are in the installation process. Added to the 1,017 units installed, that's a total of more than 1,417 manufactured homes.
In most cases, individuals and families sign occupancy agreements the same day the unit is hooked up to power. Many individuals have worked hard to make things happen quickly, including the cities and counties that approved temporary waivers to allow manufactured units to be placed in the 100-year floodplain.
The following is a chart that shows where the units have been placed and how the numbers have climbed since last week's report.
| Manufactured housing sites | Orange County | Jefferson County | Chambers County | Galveston County | Harris County | Other affected counties | totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Private property |
805 |
54 |
60 |
35 |
1 |
2 |
957 |
|
Commercial |
15 |
5 |
8 |
8 |
1 |
23 |
60 |
|
Totals: |
820 |
59 |
68 |
43 |
2 |
25 |
1,017 |
Manufactured units have been installed either on private property or in established mobile home parks. Work is currently under construction for a community site to provide additional housing pads. Click on the following link (choose "housing site preparation"), to view a short video on how this type of building project begins: www.floodmaps.net/eftp/default.asp?op=get&FName=Housing+Site+Preparation%2Eflv or
www.floodmaps.net/eftp/default.asp?op=get&FName=Housing+Site+Preparation%2Ewmv
FEMA coordinates the federal government's role in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from all domestic disasters, whether natural or man-made, including acts of terror.
Last Modified: Monday, 17-Nov-2008 11:22:04