Innovative Projects Seek Emergency Housing Alternative to FEMA’s Trailers

submitted by Samuel Bendett

FEMA looks for trailer alternative // Source: fema.gov

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - June 24, 2014

Brownsville, Texas may soon become a model for other hurricane-ravaged cities as community groups institute new emergency housing measures in the wake of inexcusable hold-ups on the part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

As theMonitor reports, groups like the Community Development Corporation (CDCB) in the city are assessing new ways to provide emergency housing for families in the wake of disasters, following FEMA’s slow response in providing reconstruction support to the South Texas coast after $1.35 billion in damage from Hurricane Dolly in 2008.

The results of this have manifested themselves in a 2009 act called HB 2450, which included recommendations for the “Lower Rio Grande Rapid Re-housing Progam,” or RAPIDO, which constructs simple, quick-construction house with a corrugated tin roof.

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