Feeling Safer Yet?
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 5:58 am by Susie
ATLANTA, June 21 — In yet another change of housing plans for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended the eviction of 3,000 families who are living in government trailers in Mississippi.
The move is the latest in a series of announcements and reversals that have caused confusion and occasionally panic among families unable to live in their ruined homes in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. For several months, FEMA has repeatedly changed deadlines, sent conflicting letters to applicants, and declared people ineligible for housing assistance for the lack of signatures or failures to appear in person for property inspections.
In Mississippi, 500 of 3,000 planned eviction notices were sent out in late April and early May, giving people 30 days to leave the trailers that the agency had provided. Many families complied.
But now, the agency is trying to contact the recipients of the letters with instructions to disregard them, said a spokesman for the agency, Aaron Walker.
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