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Report: Thousands of Evacuee Trailer Requests Unmet

HeadlineFeb 09, 2006

This news on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina — the New York Times is reporting that of 135,000 requests for trailers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has received from displaced families, slightly more than half have been filled. The news comes one day after the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered the evictions of thousands of people from government-paid hotel rooms.

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