Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
11-06-2012, 08:34 AM
http://news.msn.com/us/next-crisis-for-sandy-survivors-finding-a-place-to-live
<ARTICLE class=articlecontent sizset="0" sizcache06325955438661199="3"><HEADER> Next crisis for Sandy survivors: Finding a place to live</HEADER><SECTION class=storyimage>http://col.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/E8/178FCB92187198F2A83EAEE08C9F3B_h366_w650_m6_lfalse .jpg
AP Photo: Jason DeCrow. IMAGE: A woman pedals her loaded tricycle past a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer on Monday in Long Beach, N.Y.
<SECTION class=partnerlogo>http://col.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/C8/982D6AEBF1CE5941B27229F7C36C83_h17_w0_m6_lfalse.jp g <TIME datetime="2012-11-06 00:42:50Z">12 hr ago</TIME> By Jennifer Peltz </SECTION></SECTION><SECTION sizset="0" sizcache06325955438661199="2">Survivors of superstorm Sandy are struggling to find places to live after their homes were damaged or destroyed. Government leaders are facing the problem of figuring out where to house them.
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NEW YORK — Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens of thousands of people left homeless.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance and has put 34,000 people in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area up in hotels and motels.
But local, state and federal officials have yet to lay out a specific, comprehensive plan for finding them long-term places to live, even as cold weather sets in. And given the scarcity and high cost of housing in the metropolitan area and the lack of open space, it could prove a monumental undertaking.
For example, can enough vacant apartments be found? Will the task involve huge, Hurricane Katrina-style encampments of trailer homes? And if so, where will authorities put the trailers? In stadiums? Parks?
Authorities cannot answers those questions yet.
"It's not going to be a simple task. It's going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. history," said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis management consulting firm founded by former FEMA director James Lee Witt.
Tactics that FEMA used in other disasters could be difficult to apply in the city. For example, Merritt said, it's impossible to set up trailers in people's driveways if everyone lives in an apartment building, and it's harder to find space to set up mobile homes.
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Obama made sure Soros got 5 billion dollar loan from our government tax dollars for his oil venture in Brazil but has not made sure these people get the money they need to start over.. He is more concentrated on getting back in to destroy our economy .
These people need help now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-Tyr
<ARTICLE class=articlecontent sizset="0" sizcache06325955438661199="3"><HEADER> Next crisis for Sandy survivors: Finding a place to live</HEADER><SECTION class=storyimage>http://col.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/E8/178FCB92187198F2A83EAEE08C9F3B_h366_w650_m6_lfalse .jpg
AP Photo: Jason DeCrow. IMAGE: A woman pedals her loaded tricycle past a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer on Monday in Long Beach, N.Y.
<SECTION class=partnerlogo>http://col.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/C8/982D6AEBF1CE5941B27229F7C36C83_h17_w0_m6_lfalse.jp g <TIME datetime="2012-11-06 00:42:50Z">12 hr ago</TIME> By Jennifer Peltz </SECTION></SECTION><SECTION sizset="0" sizcache06325955438661199="2">Survivors of superstorm Sandy are struggling to find places to live after their homes were damaged or destroyed. Government leaders are facing the problem of figuring out where to house them.
<SECTION sizset="0" sizcache06325955438661199="1">
NEW YORK — Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens of thousands of people left homeless.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance and has put 34,000 people in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area up in hotels and motels.
But local, state and federal officials have yet to lay out a specific, comprehensive plan for finding them long-term places to live, even as cold weather sets in. And given the scarcity and high cost of housing in the metropolitan area and the lack of open space, it could prove a monumental undertaking.
For example, can enough vacant apartments be found? Will the task involve huge, Hurricane Katrina-style encampments of trailer homes? And if so, where will authorities put the trailers? In stadiums? Parks?
Authorities cannot answers those questions yet.
"It's not going to be a simple task. It's going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. history," said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis management consulting firm founded by former FEMA director James Lee Witt.
Tactics that FEMA used in other disasters could be difficult to apply in the city. For example, Merritt said, it's impossible to set up trailers in people's driveways if everyone lives in an apartment building, and it's harder to find space to set up mobile homes.
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Obama made sure Soros got 5 billion dollar loan from our government tax dollars for his oil venture in Brazil but has not made sure these people get the money they need to start over.. He is more concentrated on getting back in to destroy our economy .
These people need help now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-Tyr