In New Jersey, temporary housing in the form of mobile homes ready for families Sandy victims. A parking lot at Six Flags in Jackson is serving as a staging area for mobile homes Currently, the 40 units are composed of one and two-bedroom homes, with 10 additional, three-bedroom units being delivered shortly. They would be available up to 18 months to commercial parks with vacant pads, it is being reported.
FEMA Housing Supervisor Donna Weise said,
Most the houses here are for home owners who are currently rebuilding their primary residences. The homes will be deployed depending on where the need is, and right now the greatest need is in Monmouth and Ocean. (counties). Most of the people who will be identified for these will be homeowners that are rebuilding their damaged dwelling.”
Steve Minnick, FEMA’s federal staging unit lead, said,
What these offer are basic needs. It’s everything you need to get going after a disaster.”
Feds may put up FEMA trailers in New York for Sandy victims.
Finally, these people will be able to rebuild their homes without the fear of being robbed and/or having energy in order to live. Thousand of them are needed.
I hope New York residents receive these trailers soon.
Report: Huge housing gap for N.J. Sandy victims
If federal authorities decide to roll out mobile homes to house New Jersey families left without shelter by Superstorm Sandy, that would still leave thousands without housing, according to a state hurricane housing task force report.
The mobile homes would house 1,000 households, according to the report, leaving another 5,500 families or individuals still scrambling to find housing.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/07/nj-sandy-victims-housing-gap/1753555/
Jersey Shore Will Take 10 Years to Rebuild
Ten Years to rebuild smarter, more resilient Jersey Shore, experts say
It will take a decade to rebuild the Jersey Shore, and when it is done its economy may be different and there may be a much smaller population, according to a disaster expert who oversaw the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
With the sea level rising, however, it is imperative that the state takes a smarter approach to rebuilding the coast, according to some experts. That may include renovating areas where houses and businesses have long been located, because extreme weather like Hurricane Sandy will likely reoccur.
“We have to seize the day to build a disaster-resilient community,” said Tim Crowley, Region II director of mitigation for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Using federal standards to elevate structures in flood areas may make rebuilding more expensive, but will lower costs in the long term for homeowners and businesses, Crowley said. “Let’s address the risk if a Sandy-like storm comes in a year or two,” he said.
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/health-science/item/48152-ten-years-to-rebuild-smarter-more-resilient-jersey-shore-experts-say
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