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Hi. I'm Brad Harris. I'm the Recovery
Manager for the Hurricane Ike Recovery Office here in Texas.
We've been working with the citizens of Texas
and the victims of Hurricane Ike
as well as the communities and the state of Texas
in addressing the needs of the
people and the communities devastated by the hurricane.
We're commemorating a special event here
in Bridge City in the Community Site
here at Acadian Village where we had originally 40 units
of temporary housing that we've provided to victims of the hurricane.
And as they have each found a more permanent housing
solution where they have moved out, bought a unit or had one
donated through a voluntary agency or somehow moved to
a better and more permanent housing solution for them.
And today the last unit is departing
and we're turning this unit back to this
whole facility, the land and everything
back over to its original owner.
At the height of the response
FEMA has provided over 37 hundred units
for victims of Hurricane Ike to reside
in disaster housing. In this temporary disaster response
we've immediately started working with
those individuals and families to find a more
permanent home. And since then in the
17 months since Hurricane Ike'***
the coast we've reduced that number drastically.
to where now it is now, for example in Bridge City,
starting with 13 hundred families that were housed there,
we're down to under 130
still looking for a more permanent solution.
And we're working the same across Orange County
into Galveston. So FEMA will
be here until the very last one of those families
finds a more permanent solution.
We're proud of the effort that they've made
and the counties and the state in
helping us and the voluntary agencies provide
these more permanent housing
solutions for these victims.