Katrina News Online

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s making landfall, the Corporation has released several new fact sheets and other materials that document the contributions that national service participants and other volunteers have made to the recovery effort:

* New broadcast-quality video footage highlights the vital contributions of volunteers in Katrina recovery and the ongoing need for more volunteers through footage of volunteers in action and soundbites from Federal Gulf Coast Recovery Coordinator Don Powell, Corporation CEO David Eisner, AmeriCorps members, and others.
* A new fact sheet, Volunteers Respond (78 KB PDF), highlights the activities and accomplishments of volunteer-driven national and Gulf-based organizations, who together have tapped the skills and talents of more than 1,150,000 volunteers from across the United States and around the world.
* “Hope and Help in the Gulf” videos and PSAs show the power of national service in responding to the hurricanes and ask viewers to serve in the Gulf as volunteers and AmeriCorps members.

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The number of the FEMA trailers resting on the Coast had dropped to 3,690 by June 27, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.

That’s a reduce of approximately 60 percent as January, while there were 9,137 trailers.

Central housing programs managed by the state have helped Katrina survivors discover permanent homes. The Mississippi progress Authority has handed out more than $1.6 billion in landowner Assistance Grants to more than 21,000 homeowners, according to the most recent figures from Gov. Haley Barbour’s office.

Three other federal Community Development Block Grant programs are planned to present incentives to those who construct or put back reasonable housing and rental units on the Coast. Those projects are now beginning.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency also has provided 2,720 Katrina cottages throughout the federal substitute Housing Program.