NBC: FEMA-Paid Hotels to End December 1st (Jan. 7 in La and Ms)

[JPZenger]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10055843/

This was the top story tonight on NBC Nightly News. Merry Christmas from the Bush Administration!

"FEMA will stop paying for hotel rooms for most evacuees of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Dec. 1, officials said Tuesday as the agency pushed victims to find more stable housing. Housing advocates said they fear that won’t be enough time for an estimated 53,000 families — mostly in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi — who remain in hotels...

FEMA granted exceptions to evacuees in hotels in Louisiana and Mississippi, where there is a shortage of housing. Evacuees in those states have until Jan. 7 to find homes...

In Houston, Mayor Bill White demanded that FEMA grant a similar extension to the city as it moves 19,158 evacuees out of city hotels... Housing advocates said that FEMA has not given evacuees enough time to find homes and sign leases — a process that can take months in rental markets already nearing capacity."

[No Exit]

1. Yet I heard they have rows of empty FEMA trailers in some places.

The most assbackward thing I've ever seen. Chertoff should be in jail.

I predict that FEMA will magnanimously announce that they will let the evacuees stay in the hotels for one more month, till after Christmas.

Even worse, some of those people aren't ALLOWED to return home even when they want to.