FEMA ceased deployment of travel trailers and mobile homes in July 2007.
Since "regulations prohibit using mobile homes in flood plains," he said, they "cannot be used where most needed".
Some 3,000 are still living in cramped mobile homes in a desolate, temporary neighborhood north of Gaza.
Children play soccer outside their mobile homes in the Norwalk trailer park, where they also wander freely on bikes.
TOP: Children play soccer outside their mobile homes in the Norwalk trailer park, where they also wander freely on bikes.
Over the weekend, a tornado smashed six mobile homes in Palm Bay, a seaside city on the state's east coast.
There are 8.6 million mobile homes in the United States, according to a 2013 U.S. Census Bureau report.
As Floridians rebuild after Hurricane Irma, housing experts worry they'll find older mobile homes in widespread disrepair.
It has rolled in 16 cabins (mobile homes in clever disguise) and positioned them directly across from the huge waves that pound Hobuck Beach.
In a draft report to the Federal Emergency Management Agency after that 1992 hurricane, Mr. Pistorino said, he recommended outlawing mobile homes in all the state's hurricane zones.
Until their permanent lodging in mobile homes in Versailles is ready, they are living in caravans at Zingaro's headquarters at Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris.
