FEMA is selling off used trailers
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A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has changed its policy and will provide some reimbursement for homeowners who spent their own money to elevate hurricane-damaged houses above flood level.
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Stored in such places as the vacant land near an airfield in Hope, Ark., an industrial park in Cumberland, Md., and a warehouse in Edison, N.J., are the results of one of the federal government's costliest stumbles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- tens of thousands of empty trailers.
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A powerful storm overturned FEMA trailers and tore apart businesses early Tuesday in neighborhoods still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
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An auction of foreclosed homes, many of them in fast-growing exurban and desert communities east of Los Angeles, brought out a crowd of potential buyers.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is checking whether thousands of families in Mississippi and Louisiana are eligible for the government-issued trailers they&#039;re living in, but officials have stepped back from evicting hundreds of the families.
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Federal health officials have confirmed that high levels of formaldehyde gas pose health risks to hurricane victims housed in 38,000 government trailers on the Gulf Coast, and will recommend that occupants be moved before temperatures rise this spring and summer, Bush administration officials dis...
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 27--GROVES -- Melody Miller's days of living in a FEMA trailer in front of her Hurricane Rita-damaged home are numbered.
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By The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Dec. 15--A Beaumont man died from smoke inhalation Thursday after a fire started in his FEMA trailer, according to Beaumont Fire Department officials.
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How to unload your property during a real estate downturn.
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The federal agency faces tough questions over trailers it supplied to Katrina survivors that turned out to be hazardous
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--For the second time in a year, the Bush administration wants to sell off parts of the Carolinas' national forests.   More than 10,000 acres in the two states are among 273,000 acres the administration would sell nationwide.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 16--It can be pretty diffi cult to sell or rent beachfront property without a beach.
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When Hurricane Charley moved out, the conmen moved in. From selling $5 ($A7) bags of ice by the road to charging up to $11,000 to take down damaged trees, the rip-offs are rampant.
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One year after Katrina, the government is still squandering tens of millions of dollars in wasted disaster aid, including $17 million in bogus rental payments to people who had already received free trailers and apartments, federal investigators said Wednesday.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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