Loading ...The same think with all those FEMA Trailers they built after a big storm. Acres of them never got used.
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WASHINGTON – Stored in such places as the vacant land near an airfield in Hope, Ark., an industrial park in Cumberland, Md., and a warehouse in Edison, N.J., are the results of one of the federal government’s costliest stumbles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: tens of thousands of empty trailers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency hurriedly bought 145,000 trailers and mobile homes just before and after Katrina hit, spending $2.7 billion largely through no-bid contracts. Now, it is selling off as many as 41,000 of the homes, netting, so far, about 40 cents on each dollar spent by taxpayers.
Thousands more – critics say more than 8,000 – have never been used and cannot be sold immediately, even though scores of people in the South have been made homeless by recent storms.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/mar/08/fema-selling-thousands-of-unused-trailer-homes/
Compounding the waste is the knowledge the federal government auctioned off disaster-response trailers at fire-sale prices just before Harvey hit, according to an Associated Press investigation. More than 100 2017-model FEMA trailers were sold during the two days before the Category 4 hurricane landed in the Gulf Coast for less than $5,000 apiece.