Louisiana Weekly Housing Update 

Release Date: October 31, 2005
Release Number: 1603-130

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) and the State of Louisiana’s urgent priority is emergency housing. Helping victims find a safe place to live is an essential first step toward getting them back on their feet. To date, the total number of temporary housing ready for occupancy approaches 36,500 units throughout the affected Gulf States.

At the close of business on Oct. 30 in Louisiana: 4,695 travel trailers and mobile homes have been placed on private, industry, group, and commercial sites and are now occupied; 2,315 units on cruise ships are occupied; 856 FEMA-leased hotel rooms are occupied, and 2,740 units of federal housing provided by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are now occupied.

There are also several housing sites under construction throughout Louisiana. Crews are continuously working to complete these sites in various parishes including Orleans, St. Bernard and Jefferson.

The following charts provide detailed information on the types of housing assistance available and their status, and a listing of the parishes with respect to their occupancy status.

Cumulative Housing Summary
Type Units Occupied

Travel Trailer -
Individual Assistance**

2,507

Travel Trailer -
Industry**

1,848

Mobile Homes

337

Federal Housing -
HUD -Housing & Urban Development

USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture

2,740

FEMA Leased Hotels/Other

856

Cruise Ships

2,315

TOTAL:

10,603

**Travel trailers are broken into Individual Assistance (assistance for affected individuals and families) and Industry (housing assistance for displaced workers who have returned to bring critical facilities back online).

This table breaks down the parishes that have units currently occupied.

PARISH UNITS OCCUPIED

Ascension

11

Avoyelles

24

Beauregard

7

Bossier

42

Caddo

4

Calcasieu

584

Claiborne

3

Concordia

29

East Baton Rouge

592

East Feliciana

1

Evangeline

0

Grant

13

Iberia

102

Jefferson

1,170

Jefferson Davis

0

Lafayette

73

Lafourche

47

Lasalle

5

Livingston

1

Madison

0

Orleans

3,083*

Ouachita

71

Plaquemines

179

Rapides

0

St. Bernard

524

St. Charles

120

St. James

154

St. John the Baptist

31

St. Mary

48

St. Tammany

328

Tangipahoa

111

Vermillion

0

Washington

46

Webster

0

Total

7,403*

*Does not include parish breakdown for federal housing.

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 and the U.S. Fire Administration. FEMA became part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003.

Last Modified: Tuesday, 01-Nov-2005 09:47:34