FEMA is implementing significant changes in its disaster response strategies, particularly by ending door-to-door canvassing of disaster survivors. This reform aims to enhance survivor assistance by focusing on fixed facilities for aid registration and outreach, enabling better collaboration with local partners. Although this change intends to streamline efforts, some FEMA workers express concern that it may hinder access to vulnerable populations, such as the elderly and disabled, who rely on direct outreach for aid. The agency has yet to provide further comments on these new changes.
Ending door-to-door canvassing, one FEMA worker says, will "severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable people." This assistance has typically focused on the most impacted.
FEMA will discontinue unaccompanied FEMA door-to-door canvassing to focus survivor outreach and assistance registration capabilities in more targeted venues, improving access.
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