FEMA: Temporary Housing Ready for Sandy Victims
A parking lot at Six Flags in Jackson is serving as a staging area for mobile homes.
In an unused parking lot under the long morning shadow of a 130-foot tall steel roller coast, 40 outwardly identical mobile homes, each sitting on their own trailer, are ready for deployment. As part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Temporary Housing Assistance program, mobile homes have been delivered from Cumberland, Md. and are currently being staged at Six Flags Great Adventure theme park in Jackson. As early as next week and assuredly before Christmas, officials said, the mobile homes will be dispatched to parts of Monmouth and Ocean Counties where they’ll house residents who have lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy. And more are on the way. “Most the houses here are for home owners who are currently rebuilding their …
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Margaret P McCord
2:41 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
"Families are eligible to live in temporary housing for as many as 18 months, though Weise said on occasion extensions are granted, depending on the severity of the disaster." Well, I hope those homeowners are also financially recovering by now as it can be really hard to live in such a small temporary housing unit. I mean, it's not that I am thinking FEMA is not being helpful at all but the … more ›