Sites to Help
Hurricane-affected People Find Free Shelter
As New Orleans residents began the mandatory evacuation of their city
for the second time in three years, http://hurricanehousingsearch.org/ and
http://gustavhousing.org/, established in the immediate aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, are again offering a free service connecting victims of
Hurricane Gustav and Hanna and public service organizations with
homeowners volunteering to provide free shelter.
Organized
by state, HurricaneHousingSearch.org offers a simple way for homeowners to
list their available space and for individual survivors, FEMA officials,
Red Cross directors, and other care providers to access them.
"We
established HurricaneHousingSearch.org in 2005 to help the hundreds of
thousands of families who were made homeless by Hurricane Katrina," said
Joel Lesser, CEO of site sponsor Creative NetVentures of Johns Creek,
Georgia. "We want those who are being displaced by Hurricane Gustav and
Hanna to know HurricaneHousingSearch.org is still available to help them
locate temporary housing. Finding such housing is imperative and this site
is simply our small way of contributing to what needs to be an all-out
nationwide effort."
With
thousands of residents in the path of Gustav and Hanna being ordered to
leave their homes, state and private emergency services directors have
indicated that the shortage of temporary housing is rapidly becoming more
acute than shortages in such other emergency essentials as food and
medical supplies.
"All of
us who populate cyberspace talk about the 'internet community' so much
that the phrase sometimes has very little meaning," Lesser added. "HurricaneHousingSearch.org
is our ongoing effort to make that concept a reality at critical moments
like these. Moments when a sense of community -- on and off the internet
-- is so desperately needed. I urge both homeowners who want to help
mitigate this disaster, survivors who may eventually gain access to a
computer, and shelter directors, FEMA field workers and Red Cross
officials to visit and make use of HurricaneHousingSearch.org."
According
to Lesser, HurricaneHousingSearch.org which is also accessible via
GustavHousing.org and HannaHousing.org is being maintained online
permanently to enable "Americans to help other Americans whenever and
wherever disasters forcing people from their homes occur."
HurricaneHousingSearch.org is free, non-profit, contains no advertising
and is powered by Creative NetVentures patented editor-based application
service, LinksManager.com.
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