Daily Real Estate News  |  September 2, 2008  |   Web Site Offers Hurricane Housing Help
New Orleans residents whose homes were in the path of Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna can look for free shelter on HurricaneHousingSearch.org.

The site was established in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and is once again offering a free service connecting hurricane victims with home owners volunteering to provide free shelter.

Home owners can list their available space on the site, which can be searched by individual survivors, FEMA officials, Red Cross directors, and other care providers.

With thousands of residents in the path of Gustav and Hanna 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.

Lesser said HurricaneHousingSearch.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.

The Web site also is operating under two other domain names, GustavHousing.org and HannaHousing.org.

"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," said Joel Lesser, CEO of Creative NetVentures. "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."

Source: HurricaneHousingSearch.org