FEMA is selling the Katrina trailers to the people living in them for $1 or $5

[thewayne]

Now, that's a good thing. But aren't these the trailers that were outgassing formaldehyde when they were issued? I seem to recall there were also electrical code problems. Now, the outgassing should have settled by now, but isn't the gov't opening themselves to long-term law suite problems by selling these trailers with known, documented, defects?

There are a lot of other problems, such as zoning, that exist, but I think that it's still a good thing overall.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203897.html?g=0

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[silveradept]

These were the same trailers, I believe, but one would hope the government would fix the defective ones, if they haven't already, before selling them off.