![[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 -- Travel trailers in one section of a staging area are placed 12 wide by 36 deep, producing a sea of 432 trailers waiting for final inspection and documentation before they are used to house people left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. FEMA will place tens of thousands of these units and mobile homes throughout the state in commercial parks, on industrial and private property and in group sites being constructed by the agency. Win Henderson / FEMA](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn10/L3Bob3RvLzIwMDUvMTAvMDEvaHVycmljYW5lLWthdHJpbmFodXJyaWNhbmUtcml0YS1iYXRvbi1yb3VnZS1sYS1vY3RvYmVyLTEtMjAwNS10cmF2ZWwtdHJhaWxlcnMtMGVjYTAwLTEwMjQuanBn/320/212/jpg "[Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita] Baton Rouge, LA, October 1, 2005 -- Travel trailers in one section of a staging area are placed 12 wide by 36 deep, producing a sea of 432 trailers waiting for final inspection and documentation before they are used to house people left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. FEMA will place tens of thousands of these units and mobile homes throughout the state in commercial parks, on industrial and private property and in group sites being constructed by the agency. Win Henderson / FEMA")
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In the late 1910s, there were few gas stations, few paved roads, and no highways was a time that America’s leading historians call the beginning of modern RV. In 1920s people who traveled like this were referred to as 'tin can tourists'. As time progressed, trailers became attractive, comfortable and earned a new name "house trailer" in the 1930s and 1940s. In the late 1930s, during the Great Depression, FSA (Federal Farm Security Administration) built trailer camps to assist childless couples and families of one and two children in moving in areas where new factories were built, and labor was in demand. In 2005, FEMA provided temporary emergency housing using thousands of travel trailers.
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