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.