FEMA deem homes "habitable": Owners ineligible for more aid

[rainbow4321]

Including this house:


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/05/katrina/3795292.html

A New Orleans house flattened but for a concrete staircase on a crumbling facade was among many storm-ravaged structures that federal officials deemed fit for occupancy by Katrina victims now living in Houston, Mayor Bill White said Friday.

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, White said Friday after a briefing by the team.

"Some of our worst fears were realized," White said. "Many of these notices were simply in error. The vast majority of the structures we inspected were not habitable by any standard."

[madeline_con]

1. Habitable by what?

[Mnemosyne]

7. It looks habitable for rats and stray dogs and cats.

More crimes against the survivors down there.:grr:

Heinous.:nuke:

[LiberalFighter]

2. That's not true!!! A standard was used. Standard used by Bush for

those who are not CEO's of oil companies.

[flyarm]

3. heart wretching ..and disgusting,.i am fucking sick of the criminal

in our white house..his plan was to destroy fema..
this makes me sick to my stomach!

fly

[aquart]

9. FEMA? Too small.

George's plan is to destroy the world. America first.

[magellan]

4. Make FEMA live in them first.

Then we can be SURE.

[Occulus]

5. kgfnally deems FEMA a criminal enterprise. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

6. BlooInBloo concurs, and suggests that the criminals.....

.... extend somewhat wider than FEMA.

Evil bastards. :mad:

[bullimiami]

8. not IN ERROR. what fema is all about is paperwork and delay.

they do not want to pay anything to anyone and do whatever they can to discourage followup and increase frustration.

under bush fema has been made over into a racket for its managers and contractors.

[cynatnite]

10. they probably never bothered looking at them...

lazy assholes :grr: