New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has called them “trailers.” Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro has referred to them as “mobile housing.” And even Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate described them last week as “mobile homes.”
A man stands in the living room of a mobile home. The mobile homes are part of FEMA's Manufactured Housing Program, which provides temporary housing to flood victims whose homes were destroyed. Staten Island Borough President Molinaro says the manufactured homes are not needed on the Island. Photo by Dave Saville/FEMA News Photo
But the federal housing units that were trucked into New Jersey this week and are awaiting displaced victims of Hurricane Sandy are none of those things, officials say.
Despite their resemblance to housing found in trailer parks across the country, federal officials call the emergency units “factory-built” or “manufactured homes.”
“They’re not travel trailers. They’re not mobile homes,” said Brian Sullivan, a spokesman for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which regulates the units. “They’re factory-built homes…They don’t have wheels.”
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