House probes flawed management FEMA’s mobile housing program

Published February 23, 2017 7:20pm ET



A House committee is demanding information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s distribution of emergency housing trailers, one of which overheated and caused the death of one man.

In a letter to FEMA Acting Administrator Robert Fenton Jr., Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked for documents related to FEMA’s handling of requests and distribution of Manufactured Housing Units, which are intended for people left homeless after natural disasters.

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