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State rep: FEMA trailer rent could be too high for poor families

Date: October 10, 2012
By: Wes Duplantier
State Capitol Bureau

Intro: 
FEMA will soon be charging rent to Joplin tornado victims who are still living in emergency trailers and at least one Missouri official says the proposed rates might be too expensive.
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Wrap: The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, said this week that it will begin charging rent in December. A two-bedroom trailer in Joplin will cost $595 per month and a 3-bedroom unit will cost $757 per month.

But state representative Bill White, a Republican from Joplin, said people who are still living in the FEMA trailers 18 months after the tornado are people who don't make enough money to pay fair market prices.

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Description: "If you have a single-parent family working a minimum-wage job, there isn't a lot of places you're going to be able to afford."

A FEMA official in Kansas City said low-income families will be able to ask the agency for a lower rent.

From the state Capitol, I'm Wes Duplantier.

Intro: 
Joplin tornado victims still living in emergency trailers will soon have to pay rent and at least one Missouri politician says it might be too expensive.
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OutCue:  SOC

Wrap:  The Federal Emergency Mangement Agency, FEMA, said this week that it will begin charging rent on the units in December: $595 per month for a 2-bedroom unit and $757 per month for a 3-bedroom unit.

State representative Bill White, a Republican from Joplin said FEMA's proposed rates are too expensive for low-income families.

But FEMA regional spokesman Michael Cappannari said the rates are based on a federal formula that aims to find the "fair market" price for housing in disaster areas.

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Description: "It's something that we use across the country. We'll see what happens in the coming days and weeks based on appeals that we get."

From the state Capitol, I'm Wes Duplantier.