Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
By Ben Smilowitz Executive Director, Disaster Accountability Project The Disaster Accountability Project exists because of the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina. On the storm’s fifth anniversary, we take some time to think about everyone affected by the devastating storm and its even more devastating aftermath. And we ask the same question we ask every day, […]
The July 7th House Homeland Security Committee hearing “FEMA Housing: An Examination of Current Problems and Innovative Solutions†brought up many crucial points about disaster housing – one of the most unresolved problems in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent storms. Most of the questions were directed at FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and Department of Homeland Security […]
In his opening remarks at Wednesday’s hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, FEMA Housing: An Examination of Current Problems and Innovative Solutions, Committee Chairman, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), called FEMA’s National Disaster Housing Strategy (Strategy), “a plan to make a plan.” While this idea had been expressed many times in the past, […]
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