Louisiana Weekly Housing Update 

Release Date: April 10, 2006
Release Number: 1603-434

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Assisting Louisianians, who are on the road to disaster recovery, with temporary housing continues to be a top priority for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the State of Louisiana. This week in Louisiana: There are 45 FEMA group sites currently under development in Louisiana. Once complete, these sites will provide nearly 4,000 homes to displaced residents. Thirty-one of these sites currently under development are in Orleans parish; but all future group sites in Orleans parish have been suspended per a mayoral order. At the close of business on April 8 there were 61,543 occupied travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industrial, group and commercial sites; 33 occupied apartment units; and 3,010 occupied federal housing resources provided by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The following charts provide detailed information on the types of temporary housing available and a listing, by parish, of housing units currently occupied:

Type Units Occupied
Travel Trailer & Mobile Home
Individual Assistance		 61,543*
Apartments 33
Federal Housing
HUD - Housing & Urban Development USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture
3,010
TOTAL: 64,586

ravel trailers and mobile homes are categorized as Individual Assistance (assistance for affected individuals and families). This table shows the parishes with housing units currently occupied:

PARISH UNITS OCCUPIED
Acadia 81
Allen 46
Ascension 168
Assumption 46
Avoyelles 86
Beauregard 293
Bienville 2
Bossier 55
Caddo 84
Calcasieu 4,191
Caldwell 1
Cameron 864
Catahoula 5
Claiborne 4
Concordia 86
DeSoto 2
East Baton Rouge 1,622
East Carroll 4
East Feliciana 31
Evangeline 54
Franklin 1
Grant 16
Iberia 944
Iberville 31
Jefferson 17,232
Jefferson Davis 367
La Salle 19
Lafayette 289
Lafourche 407
Lincoln 8
Livingston 425
Madison 3
PARISH UNITS OCCUPIED
Morehouse 2
Natchitoches 30
Orleans 10,740**
Ouachita 118
Plaquemines 2,981
Pointe Coupee 68
Rapides 42
Red River 11
Richland 1
Sabine 22
St. Bernard 5,052
St. Charles 810
St. Helena 153
St. James 144
St. John the Baptist 326
St. Landry 111
St. Martin 76
St. Mary 189
St. Tammany 9,189
Tangipahoa 595
Tensas 6
Terrebonne 897
Union 18
Vermillion 1,208
Vernon 69
Washington 681
Webster 8
W. Baton Rouge 6
West Carroll 3
West Feliciana 4
Winn 1
TOTAL 61,033**

* Total occupied units include 510 Louisiana Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees who have placed their travel trailer or mobile home in Mississippi or Alabama.
**Does not include parish breakdown for federal housing.

FEMA manages federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. FEMA also initiates mitigation activities, works with state and local emergency managers, and manages the National Flood Insurance Program. FEMA became part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003.

Last Modified: Tuesday, 11-Apr-2006 09:16:34