FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The federal government typically spends up to $150,000 apiece — not counting utilities, maintenance or labor — on the trailers it leases to disaster victims, then auctions ...

WASHINGTON -- After resisting for years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is setting strict new limits on formaldehyde levels in the mobile homes it buys for disaster victims. Responding to ...

Federal officials have bought thousands of temporary housing trailers in recent years despite repeated warnings from government and private industry inspectors that hundreds of the units were shoddily ...

A recent posting offering a disaster trailer for sale might represent a new twist on tropical storms Irene and Lee clobbering the region last year — the opportunity to “flip” some property that’s ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The auction of more than 15,000 travel trailers and mobile homes stored by FEMA at the Hope Airport has been delayed at least two weeks.The bidding on the vehicles stored at ...

DONALDSONVILLE — Some residents who remain in post-flood FEMA mobile homes will be offered an opportunity to buy the trailers, Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa told the parish council Thursday ...

HOPE, Ark. - Nearly 10,000 emergency housing trailers that were intended to be sent to the Gulf Coast to help Hurricane Katrina victims have been freed up for other uses. The Federal Emergency ...

In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Stored in such places as the vacant land near an airfield in Hope, Ark., an industrial park in Cumberland, Md., and a warehouse in Edison, N.J., are the results of one of the federal government's ...