FEMA
July 19, 2007 -
At a hearing held today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, investigators released internal Federal Emergency Management Agency e-mails documenting that FEMA attorneys rejected environme
July 6, 2007 -
Families in desperate need of housing while FEMA trailers moulder in distant fields. Homeowners waiting endlessly for checks to fund rebuilding. Habitable public housing complexes boarded up while affordable apartments disappear.
June 15, 2007 -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency might have allowed -- even encouraged -- big insurance corporations to rip off taxpayers after Hurricane Katrina. But it certainly won't let John and Jane Q. Storm Victim get any more than they're due.
May 30, 2007 -
State and local governments in storm-stricken areas of the Gulf Coast will no longer have to put up their own money in order to get federal rebuilding funds, thanks to the emergency war spending bill approved by Congress last week and signed into law by President Bush.
May 25, 2007 -
Louisiana's largest state-led recovery initiative for hurricane victims -- the Road Home housing assistance program -- faces an estimated $3 billion shortfall, and federal officials yesterday told a Senate subcommittee that they have no plans to bail it out.
May 17, 2007 -
With what's expected to be an unusually active hurricane season just weeks away, concern is mounting about serious problems still afflicting the nation's readiness and response systems almost two years after Hurricane Katrina.
April 27, 2007 -
The Bush administration yesterday announced that it would extend temporary housing assistance to survivors of Hurricane Katrina for another 18 months, until March 1, 2009. The program, which had already been extended, was set to expire on Aug. 31. About 80,000 Gulf Coast residents are still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers.