Trailers for NOLA are stuck in Hope, Ark.

Yes, Hope, Arkansas has a new claim to fame. Last week MoJo Blog spotted two news items saying an airstrip there is storing some 11,000 mobile shelters -- variously described as "trailers" or "motor homes," but said in one of the articles to be 80 feet long -- for which somebody presumably could find a use on the Gulf Coast.

(Heck, we could use them here in San Francisco given the right official permissions, and so could any other town with serious homelessness. There's a huge difference in quality of life between sleeping in a doorway or tent and sleeping in any kind of vehicle, even a car or a van. There are a lot of people living homeless out here who wouldn't ask much more from life than a nice house trailer and a place to park it legally.)

[MORE: Incidentally, the Housing Authority of New Orleans posted a fairly detailed FAQ sheet about three weeks ago and the agency's Web site has been substantially redesigned to include much more information.]