FEMA will extend hotel rent payments

The Washington Post says FEMA is going to extend most of those hotel rent payments through at least Jan. 7 instead of imposing its threatened Dec. 1 cutoff. However, the National Multi Housing Council, in an email circulated this evening, is noting that hurricane evacuees outside the states of Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, California, Tennessee, Arkansas and Nevada may still be required to find apartments on terms that can use the available kinds of relief payments as soon as Dec. 15.

There's nothing new up at NMHC yet but might as well watch the site, as they'll probably post something about it soonish. In the note circulated this evening, NMHC's Jim Arbury writes:

We remain in regular contact with FEMA officials seeking clarification on other issues raised by FEMA’s long-term housing plan, including whether the Agency will honor commitments to 12-month voucher leases in Houston and six-month leases in Dallas despite its announcement on November 15 that it plans to end all voucher funding as of March 1, 2006.