Far From Home: Deficiencies in Federal Disaster Housing Assistance After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and Recommendations for Improvement
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Serial Number
111-7.Sprt
Levin Center Identifier
Document Date
2009-02-27
Report Length
291 pages
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Additional, Minority, Dissenting Views
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Yes
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Brief Executive Summary
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs AD HOC Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery conducted an investigation into federal disaster housing responses after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The Committee concludes that Katrina was a foreseeable disaster that should have had planning prepared and that the Federal housing response was inadequate, leading to hundreds of thousands of citizens to be negatively affected by the hurricanes.