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FEMA to Build Mobile Home Communities to House 200,000

HeadlineSep 13, 2005

In other hurricane news, the Times Picayune is reporting that FEMA is preparing to build dozens of mobile home communities around Louisiana to house up to 200,000 people for up to five years. One FEMA official said “It may not be quite on the scale of building the pyramids, but it’s close. This is big. We’ve never done anything like this.” In some cases FEMA will effectively create new towns with as many as 25,000 mobile homes complete with their own security force, utilities, government services and even schools. FEMA officials denied these temporary towns would become tent cities or refugee camps. FEMA has already gathered more than 6,000 trailers and mobile homes in Louisiana and has ordered 100,000 more.

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