The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu takes stock of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s already panned plan to provide housing to disaster victims. The 87-page report was submitted to Congress and state disaster relief planners who immediately took aim. The emergency manager for the state of Florida zinged that "having to survive the disaster and then the FEMA Housing Plan may be too much to ask."

The plan does seem to put a disconcerting reliance on travel trailers, which, with their toxic levels of formaldehyde, have been the bane of the Hurricane Katrina recovery plan. The plan, though, does say that FEMA needs more help from Housing and Urban Development. Indeed, while FEMA deserves our scrutiny, they can’t be asked to both respond to the disaster and take the lead in long-term rebuilding.-MB

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