The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently requested
4,500 manufactured homes to be built for victims of Hurricane Harvey. Many of
these mobile homes will be constructed in Alabama in various housing plants. Alabama
has 12 manufactured housing plants in total, with almost 4,000 employees. In
2016, about 11,000 homes were produced throughout these plants, not including
FEMA units.
“A lot of our retailers and manufacturing plants are already
FEMA contractors, and they have a great deal of experience with building these
homes,” Lance Latham said, the deputy director for the Alabama Manufactured
Housing Association.
Over 22,000 families have reached out for disaster
assistance and emergency housing already, although it’s expected more requests
will come through in the following days.
FEMA stated that these houses are part of a “variety of
housing options to ensure disaster survivors with housing needs receive housing
assistance to help their way to recovery. This is a long duration storm, the
recovery will be challenging, take time, and the help of the whole community is
required." The agency also said they have about 1,700 homes currently in
inventory. Craig Fugate, the former FEMA chief, said each home costs about
$100,000 for the home itself, installation, maintenance and removal.
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