Housing: Storm Victims Leave Hotels for Shelters, Friends' Couches

The Columbian › February 17, 2006

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) About 12,000 families made homeless by last year's hurricanes began checking out of their federally funded hotel rooms around the country Monday after a federal judge let FEMA stop paying directly for their stays.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency promised the evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that they will still receive federal rent assistance that they can put toward hotel stays or other housing. But the agency will no longer pay for their hotel rooms directly.

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Housing: Storm Victims Leave Hotels for Shelters, Friends' Couches

Earlier in the day, attorneys for the ...

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