Let's start calling them "suggested guidelines"

The Editorial LiveJournalists are relieved that FEMA is (again) not enforcing a housing recertification "deadline":

Houston social service agencies and Hurricane Katrina victims living in the city welcomed a decision by Federal Emergency Management Agency officials to extend housing subsidies past an Oct. 31 deadline for recertification for at least another four months. The specter of thousands of jobless people being thrown out of their apartments onto the streets still remains, but the FEMA action provides a window of opportunity to prevent that from happening.

The federal disaster relief agency dropped its requirement for extensive documentation for housing assistance recertification after few of the estimated 21,000 evacuee households in Houston made submissions. Instead, a simple one-page form is being accepted, with an automatic extension of all housing payments through the end of February.

So stop calling them deadlines.

Posted by Anne Linehan @ 10/15/06 07:30 AM | Print |

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