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From washingtonpost.com :
The U.S. government will extend housing aid through August for hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents still displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, officials said yesterday, acknowledging that wide swaths of New Orleans and parts of coastal Mississippi remain uninhabitable nearly 17 months after the 2005 storms.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it would continue for six more months to pay for 130,000 households' trailers, mobile homes and apartments, aid that under federal law would have expired at the end of next month.
The Gulf Coast was hit hard by two massive hurricanes in the fall of 2005.
Officials in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas and advocacy groups had urged FEMA for a decision since December, saying the historic housing crisis triggered by the devastating storms had not subsided.
The new Democratic Congress also stepped up pressure, frustrated at the Bush administration's improvised policies and the slow pace of recovery in New Orleans.
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Posted on January 21, 2007 11:15 PM
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