Spencer, Iowa (RI) — Some of the temporary trailers FEMA set up in Spencer to house people who were flooded out of their homes in mid-2024 were occupied for nearly a year and a half.
Spencer City Manager Kevin Robinson says this fall, there were about a dozen individuals who were living in the trailers, but the last occupant was able to move into other housing Monday of this week.
The FEMA trailers arrived in Spencer on September 24th of 2024 and a FEMA spokesperson says they will be removed by the end of this month. Two temporary housing sites were set up in Spencer following the flooding in June of 2024.
The FEMA trailers have been in a commercial area on the north side of Spencer. The State of Iowa set up a separate site near the Clay County Fairgrounds, and Robinson estimates at one point as many as 100 people who couldn’t find or afford housing were staying there.
At one point, 44 households were living in the FEMA trailers in Spencer. A FEMA spokesperson says the trailers will be put up for auction rather than moved to house storm victims in other parts of the country.
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