This is a FEMA trailer, which some of the locals call "tombs with toilets." They're about 300 or 400 square feet -- by comparison smaller than most studio apartments, slightly bigger than the master bedroom in some homes, or maybe half the size of the narthex at Hollywood UMC. We've seen some with only one window. If you had read about FEMA supplying trailers for Katrina victims to live in, and thought of a mobile home, you seriously overestimated. You've seen larger campers being pulled by vacationers behind pickup trucks on the interstate.
Many families have lived in one of these for 18 months, sometimes four to five to a trailer.
Our job, and the job of other volunteers like us, is to get people out of these trailers and into their homes as soon as possible.
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