VOX SCIENCE AND HEALTH - TOXIC FEMA TRAILERS AN IMPORTANT STORY
EXCERPT: " The story of the trailers — which Grist has assembled from Freedom of Information Act requests, interviews, and the public record — goes like this: Less than 24 hours after the New Orleans levees broke, trailer companies were in touch with local officials for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), setting up contracts to provide housing for people whose homes were destroyed in the flood. Since 80 percent of New Orleans, plus a whole lot of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastline, had been flooded, the need for housing was overwhelming. At the time, there were about 14,000 trailers in lots around the country, waiting to be sold; FEMA needed 120,000. It ordered nearly $2.7 billion worth of travel trailers and mobile homes from 60 different companies, and the production lines cranked into overdrive..."
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The story continues... the trailers with formaldehyde poisoning had warning stickers on them, which people pulled off, and they are in camps where sometimes seven people will sleep so that they can work and save money to go elsewhere...
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