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    From Trailers To Tents: What Happens To Leftover Aid Supplies?

    FEMA is now auctioning off trailers sent to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But that's just one way to deal with a surplus.
    by Joanne Lu Feb 26, 2019 4 minutes
    FEMA disaster relief trailers in storage.

    FEMA is planning to sell off thousands of leftover trailer homes in Texas.

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent the trailers for temporarily homeless families after Hurricane Harvey struck in August 2017. But not all of them were used. Now FEMA is auctioning the leftovers online to the public with a minimum bid of $100 for trailers that range from 1 bedroom units, valued at $57,354, to 3-bedroom units with a value of $70,965.

    This practice is controversial (more on that later).

    And it brings up the question: What happens to surplus humanitarian aid?

    , head of global logistics for the Norwegian Refugee

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