MEMA Displays Miss. Cottage For Lawmakers

JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency set up a new modular home outside the state Capitol to show lawmakers where federal dollars for Katrina victims are going. MEMA says more than 2,000 similar modular homes are in use on the coast right now.

Lexington Homes in Mississippi designed the mobile home after complaints about Formaldehyde emissions from FEMA trailers. The model shown Wednesday was a two bedroom, one bath designed for physically disabled disaster victims.

The modular homes are part of a pilot program to make safer, more livable homes for victims of natural disasters.

If you'd like to take a look at the mobile home, it will be on display Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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