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Hundreds (in Galveston) may be homeless with FEMA vouchers

by markmayhew | November 12, 2008 at 11:04 am

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Vallery is among hundreds of Galveston County residents checking out of hotel and motel rooms today because the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not extend their hotel vouchers.

FEMA has always extended these vouchers in the past, I'd be suprised if they don't do it again today. I'll be near these hotels laters, I'll update from there.

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Rachel Nixon

at 14:32 on November 12th, 2008

Thanks - look forward to hearing what happens with the vouchers.

Amy Judd

at 14:52 on November 12th, 2008

Don't they have some kind of social responsibility though to not throw people out on the street?

markmayhew

at 15:05 on November 12th, 2008

I've been asking around and, as I thought, I'm hearing that FEMA came thru, again, at the last possible minute...noone in Galveston is getting kicked out of their hotel room tonight

markmayhew

at 16:17 on November 12th, 2008

and now on TV it is being reported that hundreds of people's FEMA vouchers did expire at noon today, and they were thrown out of their rooms...but I don't see anybody milling about the hotels on Seawall Blvd, so I'm not so sure....

Amy Judd

at 16:20 on November 12th, 2008

Hmmm, well I imagine you would see them if they did get thrown out, because where would they go otherwise?

markmayhew

at 16:45 on November 12th, 2008

yes, they would be milling about....and with TV cameras following them, they like had this morning...I'm sure FEMA renewed the vouchers, like they always do (I think some from New Orleans/Katrina are *still* receiving)

Amy Judd

at 16:47 on November 12th, 2008

Yes, I'm sure they did too.

Erin Toberman (not verified)

at 18:53 on November 13th, 2008

I know of many who lost their hotel vouchers yesterday. It is very frustrating. Many are Galveston residents living in hotel rooms in Austin and San Antonio. Those residents who evacuated and cannot figure out how to return to Galveston are having a very hard time. 300 in Austin and still waiting for the report on the number of residents in S.A.