Louisiana Weekly Housing Update
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Release Number: 1603-267
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The road to recovery begins with finding a safe place to live. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) and the State of Louisiana’s urgent priority is providing temporary housing. To date, the total number of temporary housing units ready for occupancy exceeds 72,000 throughout the affected Gulf States.
In Louisiana, at the close of business on Jan. 7 there were: 23,864 travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industry, group and commercial sites occupied; 2,294 units on cruise ships are occupied; 925 FEMA-leased hotel rooms are occupied, and 2,967 units of federal housing provided by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are now occupied.
There are also several travel-trailer group sites under construction throughout Louisiana. Crews are working continually to complete these sites in various parishes including Tangipahoa, St. Charles, Calcasieu, Orleans, St. Bernard, Jefferson, Plaquemines and East Baton Rouge.
The following charts provide detailed information on the types of temporary housing available and a listing of housing units currently occupied by parish:
| Type | Units Occupied |
|---|---|
| Travel Trailer & Mobile Home Individual Assistance** | 21,626 |
| ravel Trailer & Mobile Home Industry** | 2,238 |
| Federal Housing
HUD - Housing & Urban Development USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture |
967 |
| FEMA Leased Hotels/Other | 925 |
| Cruise Ships | 2,294 |
| TOTAL: | 30,05 |
**Travel trailers and mobile homes are categorized as Individual Assistance (assistance for affected individuals and families) and Industry (housing assistance for displaced workers who have returned to bring critical facilities back online).
PARISH |
UNITS OCCUPIED |
Acadia |
30 |
Allen |
13 |
Ascension |
80 |
Assumption |
8 |
Avoyelles |
65 |
Beauregard |
124 |
Bienville |
1 |
Bossier |
46 |
Caddo |
17 |
Calcasieu |
2,478 |
Caldwell |
1 |
Cameron |
269 |
Catahoula |
4 |
Claiborne |
3 |
Concordia |
69 |
East Baton Rouge |
1,163 |
East Feliciana |
8 |
Evangeline |
30 |
Grant |
14 |
Iberia |
583 |
Iberville |
195 |
Jackson |
22 |
Jefferson |
8,587 |
Jefferson Davis |
163 |
La Salle |
10 |
Lafayette |
150 |
Lafourche |
195 |
Livingston |
163 |
Madison |
0 |
Natchitoches |
24 |
Orleans |
5,008*** |
Ouachita |
75 |
Plaquemines |
1,159 |
Pointe Coupee |
17 |
Rapides |
31 |
Red River |
9 |
Richland |
1 |
Sabine |
8 |
St. Bernard |
1,992** |
St. Charles |
600 |
St. Helena |
48 |
St. James |
152 |
St. John the Baptist |
205 |
St. Landry |
30 |
St. Martin |
39 |
St. Mary |
95 |
St. Tammany |
4,671 |
Tangipahoa |
198 |
Tensas |
2 |
Terrebonne |
369 |
Union |
2 |
Vermillion |
554 |
Vernon |
9 |
Washington |
253 |
Webster |
0 |
W. Baton Rouge |
4 |
West Carroll |
1 |
West Feliciana |
2 |
TOTAL |
29,873* |
*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, 10-Jan-2006 10:05:55