FEMA Money Ends For 2,800 Evacuee Families
POSTED: Thursday, August 31, 2006
UPDATED: 4:59 pm CDT August 31,
2006
HOUSTON -- Nearly 2,800 Hurricane Katrina evacuee families will stop receiving housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday, KPRC Local 2 reported."I don't want the city of Houston to be known as the eviction city," Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee said.Jackson-Lee called for emergency action as thousands of evacuee families will soon be forced to pack up and move or face eviction."I am asking for apartment owners to be flexible, sensitive, reasonable and responsible," Jackson-Lee said.Some elderly and disabled evacuees received one-month extensions."Houston is going to be my new home," Elaine Breaux said. "I just have to get a job so I can pay my way."FEMA officials said the emergency funds were considered short-term help for people who survived Hurricane Katrina."FEMA does not evict people from apartments," spokesman Charlie Henderson said. "FEMA is concerned about the well-being of all the people we've worked with and we are advising them to contact non-profits and faith-based if they have additional social services that they need."One couple turned to the New Orleans Journey Home Center as a last resort, even though they want to stay in Houston."FEMA only giving us two months of rent," evacuee Ireona Falls said. "What are we going to do after that? I'm going to have to live in a shelter or something."The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, filed a lawsuit against FEMA on Tuesday to force the agency to continue providing housing assistance. The court has not yet ruled on the lawsuit.
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- August 29, 2006: Lawsuit Filed To Force FEMA To Keep Paying
- August 28, 2006: Hurricane Evacuees Face Eviction
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