Where will trailer residents be moved?
Dave Cohen Reporting
U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu chairs hearing today on FEMA disaster assistance housing.
It is a meeting of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Disaster Recovery sub-Committee.
Landrieu says she wants answers from FEMA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on where displaced people will live now that they are being moved out of FEMA trailers amid formaldehyde concerns.
There is a shortage of affordable post-hurricane housing in New Orleans.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said recently that the effort to move people out of more than 8,500 FEMA trailers will lead to a "second great displacement" of New Orleans residents.
In a letter to the White House he wrote, "Because of the scope of damage to New Orleans' housing stock, much of which is still not recovered, there is insufficient housing here to place all New Orleans citizens needing to be relocated from trailers."
He went on to say that the plan "will lead only to a second great displacement, as current trailer residents will be moved from New Orleans to apartments and hotels elsewhere in the Gulf Coast region."
