National FEMA Trailer Tour

The KatrinaRitaVille Express national FEMA trailer tour is in Austin TX for today’s CNN Democratic Presidential Debate at the University of Texas.

The FEMA trailer will appear today by the UT Austin campus at 4 pm, at the corner of E. Dean Keaton St. and Robert Dedman Drive (see map, below).

This will be an open house, providing visitors with the opportunity to see inside a real FEMA trailer—the same vehicles that thousands of families are still living in today, two and a half years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Equity and Inclusion Campaign of the Louisiana Recovery Foundation is bringing a bus of Gulf Coast residents—from Mobile Bay, AL, coastal Mississippi and coastal Louisiana—to meet the FEMA trailer near the east campus of UT Austin.

Displaced persons and folks back home will bear witness to the unmet housing, environmental, infrastructure and social justice needs of our region’s slow moving “recovery.

No presidential candidate or debate has yet acknowledged or addressed the public policy and enforcement climate that has harmed Gulf Coast people, communities and recovery efforts for more than 2 years.

For more information, call 228-326-400.

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