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FEMA briefs Citrus County on direct temporary housing options, timeline and local coordination needs
Summary
FEMA staff detailed the agency's direct temporary housing program for Citrus County survivors of recent storms, emphasizing transportable temporary housing, site inspections, floodplain and permitting constraints, and the importance of local permitting and property-owner coordination.
FEMA officials on Tuesday gave Citrus County commissioners an overview of the agency’s Direct Temporary Housing (DTH) program, the options available to survivors after a disaster and what the county can do now to smooth placement and move survivors from hotel stays to longer-term temporary housing.
James Murphy, a FEMA representative, and Gentry Salter, FEMA’s individual assistance branch director for direct housing, told the board that DTH includes multifamily lease-and-repair, direct leases of existing residential units, transportable temporary housing units (MHUs and travel trailers) and multifamily lease-and-repair programs. Murphy said FEMA is already embedded in the region and working out of the Tallahassee Joint Field Office.
The presentation laid out how applicants register (by phone, online at disasterassistance.gov, at disaster recovery centers or via FEMA field teams), how FEMA inspects and verifies damage and the criteria used to…
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