CNN.com - Atlanta mayor: In resettling evacuees, FEMA no help - Oct 14, 2005

CNN.com - Atlanta mayor: In resettling evacuees, FEMA no help - Oct 14, 2005

"CNN anchor Miles O'Brien on Friday spoke about the challenges facing one city with Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.

Atlanta took in 42,000 families fleeing the disaster.

O'BRIEN: All right, let's talk about this, 42,000 families. You're a big city. It's a prosperous city, but that still puts a burden on the city, doesn't it?

FRANKLIN: Well, it certainly does, but I don't think it's a burden that FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] can't help us to address.

The Congress and the president have allocated $62 billion. Our estimates are that a family needs assistance for about six months in order to stabilize themselves and that would cost about $11,000 per family.

The city of Atlanta can't absorb that cost, but we can certainly work with FEMA, if they were willing, to help families get resettled in the city and the metropolitan area."


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