The US government is spending more than £6m a day to house people affected by Hurricane Katrina in hotels. The hotel bill has grown as officials struggle to meet a deadline imposed by George Bush to move all evacuees out of emergency shelters by the middle of October.
The news comes two weeks after it emerged that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had agreed to pay $236m (£134m) to a cruise liner firm to provide housing on three ships.
Nearly 600,000 people so far have been placed in 10,000 hotel rooms in the US, and the bill is expected to rise to $425m over the next two weeks. [Read more - Guardian]
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