Manufactured Housing Milestone

FEMA has reached a milestone in Orange County as the 2,000th family moved in to manufactured housing this week.
 
That means 98 percent of the county's eligible applicants have been placed, which is up from 94 percent in mid-January.
 
The need for manufactured housing in Orange County is great, due to extensive damage caused by Hurricane Ike.
 
The anticipated need for manufactured homes is 3,758 in the disaster area, including Jefferson and Chambers counties. More than half, at 2,043, are in Orange County.
 
FEMA provides manufactured homes when other housing options, such as rental units, are unavailable.
 

Meanwhile, in order to boost the direct housing effort, two new temporary manufactured home community sites are under construction in the southern Orange County town of Bridge City. FEMA also hopes to break ground soon on at least one temporary community site in Galveston County. For more information, visit http://www.houstonhurricanerecovery.org/node/205
 
 
Of the displaced households eligible for some type of FEMA temporary housing assistance, only about 4 percent have been identified as needing manufactured housing. Others have been referred to programs such as DHAP-Ike. For more information, visit http://www.houstonhurricanerecovery.org/node/182