Louisiana Weekly Housing Update 

Release Date: April 25, 2006
Release Number: 1603-449

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NEW ORLEANS, La. –– With more than 67,000 temporary homes already occupied in Louisiana, assisting those who need 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: At the close of business on April 23 there were 64,252 occupied travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industrial, group and commercial sites 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:

Cumulative Housing Summary for Louisiana

Type Units Occupied

Units Occupied

Travel Trailer & Mobile Home
Individual Assistance

64,252*

Federal Housing
HUD - Housing & Urban Development

USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture

3,010

TOTAL:

67,262

 

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

85

Allen

48

Ascension

170

Assumption

52

Avoyelles

88

Beauregard

302

Bienville

2

Bossier

56

Caddo

97

Calcasieu

4,419

Caldwell

1

Cameron

827

Catahoula

10

Claiborne

4

Concordia

90

DeSoto

3

East Baton Rouge

1,699

East Carroll

4

East Feliciana

30

Evangeline

56

Franklin

1

Grant

16

Iberia

908

Iberville

33

Jefferson

17,599

Jefferson Davis

367

La Salle

19

Lafayette

304

Lafourche

410

Lincoln

8

Livingston

443

Madison

3

Morehouse

3

Natchitoches

31

Orleans

11,729**

Ouachita

115

Plaquemines

3,161

Pointe Coupee

72

Rapides

48

Red River

11

Richland

2

Sabine

23

St. Bernard

5,325

St. Charles

818

St. Helena

149

St. James

145

St. John the Baptist

332

St. Landry

120

St. Martin

80

St. Mary

193

St. Tammany

9,450

Tangipahoa

696

Tensas

6

Terrebonne

922

Union

19

Vermillion

1,290

Vernon

71

Washington

718

Webster

8

W. Baton Rouge

6

West Carroll

3

West Feliciana

4

Winn

1

TOTAL

63,790**

* Total occupied units include 462 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, 25-Apr-2006 07:55:01