FEMA TO EVACUEES: YOUR HOUSE IS READY! SERIOUSLY, YOU CAN GO BACK HOME NOW!!!!
The New Orleans house you see here that's flattened except a concrete staircase on a crumbling facade was among many storm-ravaged structures that FEMA deemed fit for occupancy by Katrina victims now living in Houston according Houston's Mayor Bill White.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has notified about 8,900 heads of households in Houston, representing more than 20,000 Katrina evacuees, that they will be ineligible for the cash assistance intended to replace a massive city voucher program that has paid their rent.
A common reason was that the evacuees' former homes were now habitable.
A team from Houston's Hurricane Housing Task Force, however, conducted a spot check of 43 New Orleans homes deemed "habitable" by FEMA and found 70 percent unfit for occupancy...see the picture above.
this is a common example of just how out of touch the government continues to be
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