HurricaneHousingSearch.org & GustavHousing.org Links...Organized by state

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HurricaneHousingSearch.org & GustavHousing.org Links Gustav & Hanna Survivors To Emergency Housing

Last update: 3:21 p.m. EDT Aug. 31, 2008

ATLANTA, Aug 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ --

As New Orleans residents began the mandatory evacuation of their city for the second time in three years, http://HurricaneHousingSearch.org and http://GustavHousing.org, established in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is once again offering a free service connecting victims of Hurricane Gustav & Hanna and public service organizations with homeowners volunteering to provide free shelter.

Organized by state, HurricaneHousingSearch.org offers a simple way for homeowners to list their available space and for individual survivors, FEMA officials, Red Cross directors, and other care providers to access them.

"We established HurricaneHousingSearch.org in 2005 to help the hundreds of thousands of families who were made homeless by Hurricane Katrina," said Joel Lesser, CEO of site sponsor Creative NetVentures of Johns Creek, Georgia. "We want those who are being displaced by Hurricane Gustav and Hanna to know HurricaneHousingSearch.org is still available to help them locate temporary housing. Finding such housing is imperative and this site is simply our small way of contributing to what needs to be an all-out nationwide effort."

With thousands of residents in the path of Gustav and Hanna being ordered to leave their homes, state and private emergency services directors have indicated that the shortage of temporary housing is rapidly becoming more acute than shortages in such other emergency essentials as food and medical supplies.

"All of us who populate cyberspace talk about the 'internet community' so much that the phrase sometimes has very little meaning," Lesser added. "HurricaneHousingSearch.org is our ongoing effort to make that concept a reality at critical moments like these. Moments when a sense of community -- on and off the internet -- is so desperately needed. I urge both homeowners who want to help mitigate this disaster, survivors who may eventually gain access to a computer, and shelter directors, FEMA field workers and Red Cross officials to visit and make use of HurricaneHousingSearch.org."

According to Lesser, HurricaneHousingSearch.org which is also accessible via GustavHousing.org and HannaHousing.org is being maintained online permanently to enable "Americans to help other Americans
whenever and wherever disasters forcing people from their homes occur."

HurricaneHousingSearch.org is free, non-profit, contains no advertising and is powered
by Creative NetVentures patented editor-based application service, LinksManager.com.


SOURCE HurricaneHousingSearch.org

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1. Need to Locate Family Members? Call: 1-800-588-9822

OR go to http://www.Fema.gov for listing of names

CALL 1-800-588-9822

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2. Wow!! Just wow.... and even offering employment!!

Look at all the people offering free temporary housing!!

That's just awesome!! :D

ie:

"I have a home bakery in Bridgewater Vermont. I can offer a job
to some one that has baking experience and a place to live."

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3. Please kick this up and out of GD for the lurkers or

those who need information about housing!

Thanks!