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Associated Press - December 4, 2009 5:34 AM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal housing officials are trying to get the word out about rental vouchers available for families displaced by the 2005 hurricanes.
Three informational meetings are scheduled in Mississippi next week: in Moss Point on Monday, Gulfport on Tuesday and Waveland on Wednesday. A meeting is planned for Lake Charles, La., on Thursday.
The government this year made $80 million in housing vouchers available to areas affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says local housing authorities are to give preference for the rental subsidies to households still living in cottages or in federally issued trailers and mobile homes. The idea is to help families find more stable, long-term housing than, say, a trailer was meant to provide.
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