Hurricane housing aid is extended
The government will extend housing aid through August for Gulf Coast residents still displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, officials said, acknowledging that wide swaths of New Orleans and parts of coastal Mississippi remain uninhabitable.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it would continue to pay for trailers, mobile homes and apartments occupied by 130,000 families, aid that would have expired at the end of next month.
Officials in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas had urged the action, saying the hurricane-related housing crisis had not subsided.
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