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Posted at 12:58 PM, Sep. 3, 2005
While most displaced families do not have access to the internet, assistance providers and the real estate community do. REALTORS attempting to assit the neverending streams of phone calls and walk ins, can use the search capabilities of these programs to help make a match. These sites contain rental properties as well as a great deal of donated homes and/or rooms. www.hurricanehousing.net is a REALTOR led initiative. The search capability should be operational soon, but enter properties now. www.hurricanehousing.org. is the list Craig's list points to. Making phone # public is optional. Your e-mail address is not given out. Site forwards e-mail to you. Realtor.org led me to https://www.swern.gov/index.php , the National Emergency Response Registry. Site itself requires simple registration to receive a user name and password. A fellow Realtor suggested http://katrinahome.com/. Whether you place listings on all or one, be sure to return and pull the offer or update the status once you have found a family. Some of the above sites, noteably, www.swern.gov have multiple categories (medical, skills, commercial buildings,etc.) Let's build these databases for now and the future. If you have additional resources similar to these, please add as a comment. Thanks!