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Joplin Victims Offered Existing Homes

While many of the Joplin, Mo. tornado survivors had insurance, it could be months, if not years, before they can rebuild. FEMA said Monday it will consider bringing in trailers, as it did for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, if enough homes are not available.

By Jim Salter, Associated Press | Updated on May 31, 2011
Keith Latham, left, and Anthony Massie of Lexington, Tenn., work to install trailers brought in to Phil Campbell, Ala., for tornado victims by the Federal Emergency Management Agency Monday, May 9, 2011. Eleven of the trailers were delivered to the city as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide temporary housing units to residents who found themselves with no place to live after the recent tornadoes. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Some of the people left homeless by the Joplin tornado could be placed in rental homes nearly an hour’s drive away, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday it will consider bringing in trailers, as it did for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, if enough homes are not available.

FEMA’s first option for housing the thousands of displaced is to find them existing rental housing within a 55-mile radius of Joplin, because there isn’t much housing left in the city of nearly 50,000 residents that was left badly damaged by the May 22 tornado, spokeswoman Susie Stonner told The Associated Press. Nearly a third of the city was damaged by the violent storm that left killed more than 130 people. Twenty-nine people remained unaccounted for Monday.

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