Empty foreclosed homes and homeless flood victims?

[Dover]

I don't know how practical the idea is, or how many foreclosed homes stand empty in the general vicinity of the flooded areas, but I wonder if it might be possible to somehow arrange for all the currently homeless flood victims to take up temporary (or permanent) residence in some of the homes I've read about that are standing empty and now falling into disrepair from neglect?

What are the flood victim's other options? Where are they currently staying?


Here's a donor's forum for the midwest flood victims:

http://www.donorsforum.org/resource/Midwest_Flood_Relief_Resource_Center.html

[juajen]

1. That would be too simple. NT

[Dover]

2. We need to start getting creative as these disasters begin to pile up.

What these big events mean is that we will see a major redistribution of populations. How are we prepared to address that? We have to look at the resources available and try to create win-win situations that take advantage of what's available in any given area. Homeland Security has proven itself completely unreliable and unprepared to deal with such massive situations and within a reasonable amount of time. I think it will fall primarily to states and local groups to be first responders, and also to contend with the longer term problems as well.

I am of the belief that certain areas are now very vulnerable to the ravages of global warming, and that we should probably not spend our limited resources resettling in these areas in the aftermath of a disaster of this scale (as difficult as that decision can be for those devoted to their home areas). We can no longer assume that these events are operating within long cyclic weather patterns we've known in the past.

So, where does one go who is faced with beginning over again, often from scratch?
And where do thousands go?

I'd certainly like to see what plans FEMA, Homeland Security and others have for such events.