'It's idiotic': FEMA mobile homes' 6-figure price tags are outrageous, VIDEO Louisiana Flood Victims

Who in the hell spends $150,000 on FEMA Trailers?  These FEMA Trailers are in the way and they also are loaded with sophisticated equipment, monitors and tracking devices. Why does the Federal Government insist that we live in this type of housing and not in our own homes?  The cost of these FEMA Trailers is outrageous!  If Barack Obama had the business sense of Donald Trump we wouldn’t be spending this kind of money on FEMA Trailers, Manufactured housing etc!   Louisiana Flood Victims would be better off with more money for rebuilding and less red tape. Why in the world are we spending so much money on building and installing FEMA Trailers when that money could be spent renovating and rebuilding our Flood Damaged homes? These FEMA trailers are taking entirely too long to get and cost way to much money! These crappy trailers will never replace what we have lost. We need more money to fix our flood damaged homes! Share it and like our page here at – America First Painting Company

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is spending an estimated $129,200 for the purchase, transport and installation of each “manufactured housing unit” placed on the private property of a flood victim, according to a document provided to a Louisiana congressman. If the unit is placed in an already existing commercial park for mobile homes and travel trailers, then the cost increases to $149,000, because of the extra expense to lease the site pad. And if the mobile homes are placed in FEMA designated group sites, then the price can rise as high as $170,000. 

From the Baton Rouge Advocate;

Officials say the cost is infuriating. They note it’s more than double the market rate and argue a more cost-effective program could potentially yield the faster delivery of the mobile homes, which are in high demand and short supply four months after the flood. Some families that have been approved for the trailers might have to wait another month and a half to get into a unit, which are homes that range from one to three bedrooms and can be as big as 980 square feet.

“It’s idiotic. It’s the fleecing of America, example No. 10,000,” said U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, a Baton Rouge Republican. “You’re spending more money, and it’s taking longer. You’re saying, ‘We may be slow, but at least we’re more expensive.’”

Local purveyors of mobile homes told The Advocate that the FEMA acquisition costs aren’t at all close to market rates. FEMA estimated that it pays a unit rate of $62,500 for average cost of a mobile home, and another $23,000 for installation, and then $15,400 for maintenance. The average cost of freight, or transportation, is $5,000. FEMA then tacks on a 22 percent administrative overhead cost, which adds another $23,000.