FEMA Trailers Are Back

They're back. FEMA trailers, that is. FEMA director Craig Fugate said the government will deliver mobile homes to areas of New York and New Jersey hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. Officials are nearly out of other housing options for displaced people. Reuters reports, Fugate, in a press conference, wouldn't estimate how many of the trailers FEMA would supply. The trailers have a notorious reputation. FEMA sent tens of thousands of them to support Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005. They were later found to be contaminated with formaldehyde. That prompted lawsuits and a $37 million settlement against the manufacturers.