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According to the Governor's Division of Emergency Management, about 54,000 Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees are estimated to still be staying in hotels and motels across Texas. According to the Basic Needs Coalition of Central Texas, a public-private collaboration of 23 local organizations focused on community issues, there are about 500 evacuee households still in hotels in Travis Co. The coalition has been expressing concern for a while about not having the resources to adequately accommodate the area's evacuee population. Now coalition members are really worried. Come Dec. 1, "these people are going to end up on the street or they're going to end up coming to all the doors of all these social services agencies and we're not going to be able to help them," said Susan Eason, executive director of the coalition. from http://auschron.com current issue. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-11-25/pols_feature6.html