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September 4, 2007
No.: HQ –
07- 182
Contact: FEMA Public Affairs
Media Contact:
202-646-4600
WASHINGTON – The
Department of Homeland
Security’s Federal
Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) recently
issued Emergency Lodging
Assistance (ELA)
guidance that allows
assistance to occupants
of FEMA-provided
temporary housing units
who ask to be moved
because of health
concerns associated with
their units. FEMA
temporary housing units
include travel trailers,
park models and mobile
homes.
Under the new
Emergency Lodging
Assistance guidance,
FEMA will provide
assistance to
individuals and
households to stay at a
hotel or motel for an
initial 30 days or until
more appropriate housing
is located. Extensions
can be authorized on a
case-by-case basis. The
guidance went into
effect on August 22,
2007.
The guidance
stipulates that
residents must be
currently registered for
assistance, currently
living in a
FEMA-provided temporary
housing unit, and agree
to the terms and
conditions of the
program. These
conditions include a
signed agreement
acknowledging that the
hotel or motel rooms are
only for the use of the
applicant’s household;
that the household will
not be able to return to
the FEMA temporary
housing unit; and that
they will not be able to
purchase the unit under
the sales to occupants
program should it be
reinstated. The
conditions also include
a requirement that the
applicant is responsible
for paying for all
charges except room and
tax, which will be paid
by FEMA; and an
acknowledgement that
FEMA may terminate this
assistance with 14 days
of written notice.
Occupants of a
FEMA-provided temporary
housing unit who have a
health concern may
contact FEMA at the FEMA
Formaldehyde information
number: 1-866-562-2381;
TTY 1-800-462-7585. More
information is available
at
http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/2005katrina/useful.shtm.
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency
coordinates the federal
government’s role in
preparing for,
preventing, mitigating
the effects of,
responding to and
recovering from all
domestic disasters,
whether natural or
man-made, including acts
of terror.
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