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Washington, DC -- Last year, as a member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Congressman Sarbanes joined in an investigation that helped expose high levels of formaldehyde in FEMA trailers provided to Gulf Coast hurricane victims. Residents had complained of adverse health effects from the trailers. The series of hearings led to FEMA recalling the trailers and placing hurricane victims in rental homes and apartments.
Although Congress has directed FEMA to develop a National Disaster Housing Strategy, the agency still has not finalized a plan or created an inventory of temporary housing for future disaster response. For these reasons, Congressman Sarbanes recently wrote to FEMA urging them to finalize their disaster housing strategy prior to the beginning of hurricane season.
“The recent severe weather in the United States and disasters in Myanmar and China are vivid reminders of the need to be better prepared,” said Congressman Sarbanes. “I urge FEMA to complete a final comprehensive National Disaster Housing Strategy and, as part of the plan, to take timely and appropriate steps to select adequate temporary housing for disaster victims.”
With hurricane season fast approaching, natural disasters all over the world unfortunately dominate the news. There is a real need for reliable and safe temporary housing. CRN is a Baltimore company that provides one possible solution to address the national need for improved temporary housing in times of disaster.
"I'm interested to see the product that CRN has been working on here in the Third Congressional District," said Congressman Sarbanes. "We're hopeful that with this and other products like it we won't ever have to repeat what happened to families in the aftermath of Katrina."
To learn more about the Third Congressional District and to sign up for Congressman John Sarbanes’ e-newsletter visit www.sarbanes.house.gov
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