FEMA trailer , or FEMA travel trailer , is the name commonly given by the United States Government to forms of temporary manufactured housing assigned to the victims of natural disaster by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) . Such trailers are intended to provide intermediate term shelter , functioning longer than tents which are often used for short-term shelter immediately following a disaster . FEMA trailers serve a similar function to the " earthquake shacks " erected to provide interim housing after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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