Nicole Andrews Quotations

Marty has a huge heart, he is hardworking, a lover of FEMA, a lover of the mission of the agency.

We received a letter from the National Apartment Association in September making FEMA aware that more than 1 million apartments were ready to occupy across the country, so apparently there is plenty of supply.

We're working with everybody on a case-by-case basis, I feel extremely confident that that's not going to be the case.

We're working with everybody on a case-by-case basis.

We are just trying to help people move on,

We won't kick anyone out on the street.

We've been working around the clock sending FEMA personnel to the Scotia Prince and other cruise ships to make sure that every single family staying on board has received long-term housing assistance, or if they haven't, to get them signed up right away.

We're required by law to send the letters. We're required by law to receive 25 percent of this cost share, and obviously, we're going to be working closely with the state of Louisiana because of the circumstances.

We are doing what we can to help people keep close to home that want to stay close to home.

FEMA has a substantial challenge in balancing the need to get the money out quickly to those who are actually in need and sustaining public confidence in disaster programs by taking all possible steps to minimize fraud and abuse.

FEMA mobile homes staged in Arkansas are habitable, available and properly maintained. They have not been damaged, and certainly none are being destroyed. Mobile homes are an important part of a comprehensive housing strategy, and are commonly used for temporary housing outside of floodplains.

They apparently just overlooked the fact that the veterinarians and the accommodations had to be written into the contract that the state was undertaking.

There will not be a situation where folks in Rhode Island are having to scramble to find a new place to live by March 1.

It would be a false sense of security to rely on FEMA to rebuild a life the way it was before a disaster.

The sheer magnitude of this event requires a little bit of patience.

The states have obviously welcomed with open arms these evacuees and the president is giving them a way to pay for it.

Oh, yes, Sam Green. He is very vocal.

As far as people can get away from the storm there will be places for them to go.

The whole goal is to get people in apartments. Hotels are the most immediate resource,

A lot of families living in hotels just need that extra nudge (to find more permanent housing).

There was a technical error, so the information will be provided.

The research that we've conducted shows that we don't expect large throngs of folks to suddenly find themselves in a desperate situation.

It's not just cleaning up, but helping all those folks who were displaced. We've only just begun.

It's a very dangerous situation at this point, ... We're ready and awaiting landfall.

The occupants should be able to make the rent on their own with the federal assistance that is provided to them by FEMA.

That is commensurate to the (small) number of evacuees taken in there.

no automated way to coordinate quantities of commodities with the people available to accept and distribute them.

It's amazing that every state in the union embraced Katrina evacuees except the folks in Louisiana.

So far, FEMA has provided rental assistance for more than 500,000 families and housed more than 40,000 in travel trailers.

The federal government can't play favorites to certain businesses one over another,

If sites for those mobile homes are not approved in Louisiana, it is possible they will never be used for hurricane relief.

However, in the event of a disaster when minutes count, we have the authority to do what it takes to move quickly.

The hotels made their services available, and we paid their rates.

The challenge of moving people from short-term to long-term housing is one that we take very seriously. As the Dec. 15 deadline approached, we are aware of folks whose eligible applications are still in process and obviously we are not going to be putting anyone out on the street.

The information that people provide us when they are in the midst of, or recovering from, a life-altering event includes Social Security number, income levels, very personal information. We take our charge to protect that information very seriously.