"The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) `Mass Sheltering and Housing Assistance' recovery strategy outlines guidance and protocols for providing sheltering and housing assistance in support of a mass evacuation in connection with a Presidentially declared emergency or disaster. While this strategy focuses on assistance associated with large hurricane evacuations, the procedures and underlying processes also may apply to no-notice events, such as major earthquakes generating a subsequent need for mass sheltering and housing. (1) Congregate Shelters are facilities used for sheltering large groups of people, but that normally serve other purposes (e.g., schools, stadiums, churches, or church-sponsored facilities). (2) Transitional Shelters are facilities that provide short-term lodging and additional privacy, such as hotels or motels. (3) Temporary Housing facilities are intended to provide living accommodations for an extended period of time, to include single- and multi-family homes, apartments and manufactured homes". (FEMA, FEMA Recovery Strategy, August 3, 2006)