FEMA had previously told Hurricane Katrina victims still living in government trailers that they would have to leave those trailers by the end of May. But that’s no longer the case, reports the New York Times’ Shaila Dewan: many of the 3,446 trailers still in use can be bought by their occupants from the government for as little as $5. And Housing and Urban Development has promised priority for permanent housing vouchers to residents of these trailers.

The most important question if the Obama administration can better work with state and local government than the Bush administration did — and see these housing plans through. But what’s being proposed now is more humane than anything Bush’s FEMA rolled out.-MB

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