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Why would FEMA charge the victims of the Greensburg Kansas tornado $667 per month rental on the RV trailers?

In todays local news, FEMA will begin charging the rsidents of Greensburg $667 a month to stay in the trailers provided to them due to the tornado.

Katrina victims have yet to pay a cent for the trailers they still reside in, 3 years after the calamity of Katrina.

How can the feds explain this bold, yet almighty ignorant move?

They do not charge the Katrina victims for their trailers, and then buy/rent houses and apartments for them until 3/09, up to 1200 a month!

The following was released by FEMA Oct 1st 2008, and is cut and pasted directly from their website.

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are working together to find apartments to house the anticipated 2,000 families that will be moving out of travel trailers or mobile homes and entering the rental housing market. In order to do that, they are asking landlords to register their available rental units to help link families with homes.

FEMA, through HUD's Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP), will pay landlords housing DHAP participants up to 120 percent of the fair market rental rate. In Orleans Parish, for example, FEMA will pay up to $1,188.00 per month for a two bedroom apartment. Payments will be made through March of 2009.

Individual support continues with nearly $1.3 billion to individuals and families:

274,758 individuals and families have been approved for the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) totaling more than $1.2 billion;

216,557 individuals and families have been approved for Housing Assistance totaling more than $851 million;

134,892 Mississippians have been approved for more than $416 million in Other Needs Assistance (ONA);

3,627 temporary housing units (travel trailers and mobile homes) in service. More than 39,000 units have been deactivated;

2,235 total occupied units in the three lower counties.

Hancock 507

Harrison 1,171

Jackson 557

More than 2,800 Mississippi families who are Katrina survivors have moved from FEMA temporary housing to a Mississippi Cottage. The Mississippi Cottage is a part of the Mississippi Alternative Housing Program, which is administered by MEMA and is funded by a $280 million federal grant.

WHen will this idiocracy STOP?!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I bet the best answer would be the fact that ther population of Greensburg was 99% white, working class individuals.

    Whereas, Katrina victims are 98% BLACK, welfare recipient, pieces of trash. I know a cop that spent time in the Superdome with all the "refugees".

    Rape, murder, theft, drugs........thats what they did down there....not to mention the fact that they are slobs who expected the relief workers to pick up the mess they made and be waited on hand and foot

    They are disgusting, and so is what FEMA is trying to pull here!

  • 1 decade ago

    It could be that the people of Kansas haven't complained enough about how poor they were treated by the government. It could be that there weren't any Hollywood stars in Kansas telling everyone about the poor people and how they couldn't take care of themselves. It could just be that no one was paying attention to Kansas so they think they can get away with it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because 666 dollars would have been way to controversial

    if you understand what i mean.

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