Subject: Re: Hurricane Milton, Paradise Lost
IMHO, these FEMA programs are well intentioned and effective to some degree. But their process is significantly inadequate to meet the needs of the present situation. FEMA needs to provide housing, not an application process for people with no resources to navigate.

Imagine the shrieks from Conservatives if we were building vacant government housing all over the place and leaving it there “just in case.” And where do you build it? South Carolina? Florida? And do you tell people in New Orleans that they have to go live in George for a while? Heck, I remember a lot of displacement in New York after a hurricane. Where are you going to put those people, Wyoming?

And in California after an earthquake, and in Kansas after tornadoes, and in …

I don’t think you’ve thought this through. If there are realistic opportunities for improvement I’m all for them. “Finding them housing” on a scale of thousands or tens-of-thousands on two days notice probably isn’t it.