FEMA Tiny Modulars Create Temporary Tiny House Neighborhoods

After every natural disaster FEMA provides temporary housing. There have been a lot of different options tried. Some people are put up in travel trailers. Other times small modular or park model trailers are used.

These trucks are bringing in small modular homes to set up a temporary neighborhood. This is at the Baton Rouge Airport.

After preparing the infrastructure, many small temporary houses are set up.

The houses are not that small.

But they have shoe horned a lot of them very close together.

FEMA tries to get them set up as soon as possible. Two sites were set up. This site, Officer Jeff Taylor Memorial Acres is nearly 24 acres of temporary housing with 346 modular houses.

This is a model of one of the modular houses that FEMA might use. This was at the Individual Assistance (IA) Conference in San Diego, CA in 2010. FEMA and other agencies are trying to find better options for temporary and permanent housing after natural disasters.

These Park Models are on their way to be set up to provide temporary housing in Dike, Iowa.

There is always a lot of housing needed after a flood or hurricane.

This is what FEMA temporary housing looks like on the inside.

Basic, but not tiny, these temporary houses are provided through the FEMA program.

This tiny house can house four people. It has space for two sets of bunk beds .

A non-profit group builds these small modular homes in Jackson, MS., then brings them to wherever they are needed.

These are two modules or sections that will be put together to provide temporary classrooms at the Southern University at New Orleans. The workers are removing the temporary plastic that keeps each section dry.