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WASHINGTON - FEMA will stop paying for hotel rooms for most evacuees of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Dec. 1, officials said Tuesday as the agency pushed victims to find more stable housing.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that 53,000 families remain in hotels - mostly in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi - after losing their homes to the storms that devastated the Gulf Coast this year.
FEMA had previously set the December deadline as a goal to have evacuees out of hotels and into travel trailers, mobile homes or apartments until they find permanent homes. Tuesday's announcement marked the first time the agency said it will cease directly paying for hotel rooms that have cost at least $250 million since the storms struck.
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