August 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina hits Southeast Louisiana. Thousands of residents are displaced from their homes. Temporary emergency centres are set up in stadiums, community centres, churches, and anywhere that isn't destroyed.
Sept 12, 2005
FEMA's director, Michael Brown, resigns.
October 2005
Many of the first FEMA trailer camps open to respond to more than 700 000 emergency housing applications. However there were too few facilities, and overcrowding occured in many camps.
December 2006
Camps are at their 18 month closing deadline. However more than half of the trailer residents are still there. FEMA slowly begins removing utilities and facilities.
February 2008
With many residents still in the park almost three years after the storm, investigators find high levels of formaldehyde in the trailers.
Information Sources
1. Barrow, Bill. "FEMA to close Renaissance Village trailer site May 31". The Times-Picayune. April 8, 2008.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/fema_to_close_renaissance_vill.html (Accessed January 18, 2010)
Monday, January 18, 2010
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