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FEMA trailers serve a similar function to the "earthquake shacks" erected to provide interim housing after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [4]: 55 [5] [6] FEMA trailers were used to house thousands of people in South Florida displaced by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992, some for as long as two and a half years. [7]
KCC was founded in 1924 by representatives of 40 local chambers of commerce, who met in Hutchinson, Kansas. The founders focused on improving the state's highways. Its initial name was the Kansas Association of Chambers of Commerce. [1] In 1925, it was renamed the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. The group adopted a new constitution, and expanded to ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1]
FEMA has been dealing with conspiracy theorists since shortly after the agency was created. ... Tiffany Walters and Wendy Billot at the FEMA trailer where they lived in Houma, La., on Aug. 24 ...
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FEMA is in negotiations to use 120 spaces at three trailer parks that have been cleaned of fire debris. That should be enough room to take care of 114 households that are eligible for FEMA housing ...
Meanwhile, since 2006, FEMA has sold over 130,000 of the trailers for a total of $279 million; at one auction in January 2010, the agency sold 93,000 of them for $133 million. The sales prompted ...
A FEMA pilot program accommodating 900 Mississippi coast families encountered strong opposition from local government officials opposed to permanent small housing units, fearing they would lower property values. On the other hand, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour urged local officials to accept the cottages as safer than trailers. [1]