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Faced with housing shortages, one solution has been to create trailer
parks. Sites for these parks has become problematic as coordination
between FEMA, the city administration, the Council and the public has
broken down.
Physically, this is a relatively simple exercise with concrete
observable results.
Politically it isn't nearly so easy. The political morass reflects some
inherent problems in the design. Realistically does it make sense at
all to provide trailer cities? Shouldn't you concentrate efforts on
rebuilding the permanent housing stock and bringing people back when
they'll have a decent place to live. Read about the Puenta Gorda
trailer park to decide if you think this is a decent place to live.
Coordination is important and several levels of the federal, state and
local bureaucracy are involved. Of course it has become a fiasco.
With this kind of performance on a relatively simple task it's no wonder
that disaster planning, rescue and most of all recovery have been such
a cluster.
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