Altogether, FEMA is paying up to $7 billion for 153,000 trailers, or about $46,000 per trailer. About 132,000 are now occupied by storm victims. Under law, FEMA provides housing aid for up to 18 months, meaning that the trailers will have cost about $2,500 a month.
even if the fema trailers were the same size (320 sf) as the container home (which they are not), uncle sam is paying $143.75 per sf based on a unit cost of 46k per trailer. thats a cost disparity factor of almost ten to one. we are all getting hosed on this one. you know, add a zero to that number it could come in at.
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- bill 8-24-2006 7:15 pm