FEMA trailer

The term FEMA trailer,

  "FEMA: Important Phone Numbers for FEMA Travel Trailer Occupants"
  (news),  (uses term "FEMA Trailer Hotline"),
  March 25, 2006, FEMA.gov webpage:
  .

  "New life in a FEMA trailer" (news), ''Rising from Ruin''
  of MSNBC News, October 25, 2005, MSNBC.com webpage:
  .

or FEMA travel trailer, is the name commonly given by the United States Government to many forms of temporary manufactured housing assigned to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita or other events, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA trailers were used to house thousands of people in South Florida displaced by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992, for as long as two and a half years.

  Mireya Navarro, "New Housing for Hurricane's Last Victims"
  (Alter Trailer Park, Homes and Marina), ,
  February 27, 1995. pg. A10, New York Times Archives webpage:
  :
  about leaving Coral Roc Trailer Park and Sunrise Village
  trailer park in 1995, noted that some "bought their
  FEMA trailers for an average of $1,100 each".

They provide intermediate term shelter intended to function longer than tents used for immediate shelter after a disaster. They serve a similar function to "earthquake shacks" erected to provide interim housing after the 1906 San Francisco......
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