Reply #32: You're both right

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The trailers cost 25-30k to manufacture, but the amount FEMA paid for them hasn't been disclosed. Likely the answer to that question is another horror.

The article posted didn't mention the cost per trailer, but another one does:


Arkansas housing thousands of empty FEMA trailers


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James McIntyre, a FEMA spokesman, said 5,840 mobile homes and 80 travel trailers are at Hope and the Texarkana sites, along with more than 4,400 mobile homes and 4,200 travel trailers at the other staging areas.

"There's no schedule," McIntyre said. "We will work as quickly as possible to place people as fast as possible, but we will take all the time it needs to make sure its done safely and correctly."

McIntyre wouldn't say how much FEMA has spent on mobile homes or travel trailers, but Savage said the homes cost $25,000 to $30,000 each.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3516247.html