Louisiana Weekly Housing Update
FEMA reminds Hotel/Motel Evacuees of Important Dates...
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Release Number: 1603-332
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall, FEMA has paid more than $522 million for hotel and motel rooms. More than $6 billion in financial and housing assistance has been provided to nearly 1.5 million victims.
In Louisiana, more than 91 percent of the 11,000 evacuees still living in hotels and motels contacted FEMA to receive an authorization code prior to the publicized Jan. 30, 2006, deadline.
The Feb. 7 extension and authorization code requirement of Jan. 30 are consistent with a Court Order issued in January 2006. There will be no further extension in the FEMA hotel/motel subsidy program. An aggressive outreach campaign by FEMA notified evacuees of the Jan. 30 deadline.
The FEMA authorization code program has a few important dates:
- Feb. 7, 2006. If an evacuee did not get an authorization code by Jan. 30, 2006, FEMA will stop paying for that hotel room on Feb. 7, 2006.
- Feb. 13, 2006. If an evacuee got an authorization code by Jan. 30, 2006, FEMA will continue to pay for that hotel room until at least Feb. 13, 2006.
- For those who did not receive an eligibility decision on temporary housing assistance by Jan. 30, 2006, FEMA will continue to pay for that hotel room through March 1, 2006, or two weeks after receiving eligibility determination, whichever is later.
This week in Louisiana:
At the close of business on Feb. 4 there were: 36,675 travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industry, group and commercial sites occupied; 1,957 units on cruise ships occupied; 925 FEMA-leased hotel rooms occupied, and 3,010 units of federal housing provided by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) occupied.
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** |
36,675 |
| Federal Housing HUD - Housing & Urban Development USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture |
3,010 |
| FEMA Leased Hotels/Other | 925 |
| Cruise Ships | 1,957 |
| TOTAL: | 42,567 |
**Travel 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 | 59 |
| Allen | 33 |
| Ascension | 96 |
| Assumption | 30 |
| Avoyelles | 71 |
| Beauregard | 176 |
| Bienville | 1 |
| Bossier | 46 |
| Caddo | 21 |
| Calcasieu | 2,890 |
| Caldwell | 2 |
| Cameron | 500 |
| Catahoula | 5 |
| Claiborne | 4 |
| Concordia | 67 |
| East Baton Rouge | 1,184 |
| East Feliciana | 19 |
| Evangeline | 39 |
| Grant | 17 |
| Iberia | 767 |
| Iberville | 21 |
| Jackson | 13 |
| Jefferson | 12,125 |
| Jefferson Davis | 221 |
| La Salle | 17 |
| Lafayette | 194 |
| Lafourche | 300 |
| Livingston | 297 |
| Madison | 0 |
| Natchitoches | 26 |
| Orleans | 5,934*** |
| Ouachita | 101 |
| Plaquemines | 1,364 |
| Pointe Coupee | 47 |
| Rapides | 32 |
| Red River | 11 |
| Richland | 1 |
| Sabine | 12 |
| St. Bernard | 2,400** |
| St. Charles | 608 |
| St. Helena | 101 |
| St. James | 117 |
| St. John the Baptist | 205 |
| St. Landry | 78 |
| St. Martin | 52 |
| St. Mary | 124 |
| St. Tammany | 6,330 |
| Tangipahoa | 275 |
| Tensas | 3 |
| Terrebonne | 606 |
| Union | 6 |
| Vermillion | 766 |
| Vernon | 35 |
| Washington | 378 |
| Webster | 4 |
| W. Baton Rouge | 4 |
| West Carroll | 2 |
| West Feliciana | 3 |
| TOTAL | 38,840* |
*Does not include parish breakdown for federal housing.
**Includes cruise ships, travel trailers and mobile homes.
***Includes cruise ships, travel trailers, mobile homes and FEMA-leased hotel rooms.
FEMA prepares the nation for all hazards and manages federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. FEMA also initiates mitigation activities, trains first responders, works with state and local emergency managers, and manages the National Flood Insurance Program.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 07-Feb-2006 10:49:46