Seven months later, Obama's FEMA still failing miserably...Judge Orders Extension of Hotel Program for Hurricane Sandy Evacuees.

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/nyregion/judge-orders-extension-of-
hotel-program-for-hurricane-sandy-evacuees.html?src=recg&_r=0

By MIREYA NAVARRO

It has been nearly seven months since Hurricane Sandy struck, but a state
court judge ruled on Wednesday that New York City cannot end its hotel
program for evacuees just yet.

The ruling provides a reprieve for about 900 people in 375 displaced
households across the city who remain in 45 hotels. New York City
officials had set a May 31 deadline for ending hotel accommodations,
saying that most of the residents already had plans to move into new
homes.

Officials said they had exhausted efforts to find permanent housing for a
hard-to-place group of 156 households. Advocates for storm victims argued
that many of them were in danger of being tossed onto the streets or into
homeless shelters if the hotel program ended.

In her written decision, Justice Margaret A. Chan questioned the city�s
timing and said that it �does not seem reasonable� to end the hotel
program just as New York is getting approximately $1.8 billion in federal
storm recovery aid. The amount includes $9 million for rental subsidies
for up to 24 months, intended mostly for low-income residents and people
at risk of homelessness.

The city said it would appeal the decision.

�We recognize the enormous challenges that people have faced following
Hurricane Sandy,� Christina Hoggan, a senior counsel with the city�s Law
Department, said in a written statement. �But the program was never
intended to � and cannot � continue indefinitely.�

She said the court�s decision �will limit the city�s ability to flexibly
respond to future tragedies.�

The city placed more than 3,100 people in hotels after the storm as it
sought to keep them out of shelters. Most of the evacuees were able to
eventually return to repaired homes or secure moves into public housing
apartments or other permanent housing. But many others were too poor, with
no home to return to and not enough income to qualify for available
apartments.

Speaking at a City Council hearing in late April, the commissioner of
homeless services, Seth Diamond, said that the hard-to-place evacuees had
either rejected the housing options offered to them or had criminal
records, insufficient income and other issues that make them ineligible
for the available housing. He imposed an April 30 deadline for them to
move out of the hotels, which was later extended after the Legal Aid
Society sued the city to prevent the evictions.

Judith Goldiner, who handled the case for the organization, said the city
must now speed up the distribution of rental vouchers to assist all the
evacuees in securing a home. �In a couple of months everyone could be out
of the hotels,� she said.

The hotel program has cost more than $60 million so far but the city
expects to be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for
most of the expense.


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