Louisiana Weekly Housing Update
FEMA reminds hotel/motel evacuees to find housing alternatives
Release Date: January 23, 2006
Release Number: 1603-303
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness emphasize that now is the time for families living in hotels and motels to take responsibility and make important decisions on future housing options.
If you are currently living in a hotel/motel room paid for by FEMA, you must begin looking for longer term housing immediately. FEMA will stop paying for your hotel/motel room bills on Feb. 7 unless you call FEMA for an authorization code by Jan. 30.
When you call FEMA for your authorization code, FEMA will give you the code over the phone and tell you how long you will be able to stay in the hotel under the FEMA program.
This week in Louisiana :
The total number of temporary housing units ready for occupancy exceeds 83,000 throughout the affected Gulf States .
At the close of business on Jan. 21 there were: 30,531 travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industry, group and commercial sites occupied; 2,229 units on cruise ships occupied; 925 FEMA-leased hotel rooms occupied, and 2,997 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.
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:
Cumulative Housing Summary for Louisiana
Type |
Units Occupied |
Travel Trailer & Mobile Home |
28,060 |
Travel Trailer & Mobile Home |
2,471 |
Federal Housing USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture |
2,997 |
FEMA Leased Hotels/Other |
925 |
Cruise Ships |
2,229 |
TOTAL: |
36,682 |
**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).
This table shows the parishes with housing units currently occupied :
PARISH |
UNITS OCCUPIED |
Acadia |
41 |
Allen |
16 |
Ascension |
84 |
Assumption |
11 |
Avoyelles |
70 |
Beauregard |
119 |
Bienville |
1 |
Bossier |
45 |
Caddo |
21 |
Calcasieu |
2,490 |
Caldwell |
1 |
Cameron |
377 |
Catahoula |
3 |
Claiborne |
4 |
Concordia |
66 |
East Baton Rouge |
1,114 |
East Feliciana |
13 |
Evangeline |
34 |
Grant |
15 |
Iberia |
662 |
Iberville |
20 |
Jackson |
10 |
Jefferson |
10,186 |
Jefferson Davis |
163 |
La Salle |
16 |
Lafayette |
170 |
Lafourche |
246 |
Livingston |
230 |
Madison |
0 |
Natchitoches |
24 |
Orleans |
5,413*** |
Ouachita |
97 |
Plaquemines |
1,215 |
Pointe Coupee |
32 |
Rapides |
30 |
Red River |
10 |
Richland |
1 |
Sabine |
9 |
St. Bernard |
1,825** |
St. Charles |
543 |
St. Helena |
79 |
St. James |
107 |
St. John the Baptist |
187 |
St. Landry |
48 |
St. Martin |
43 |
St. Mary |
108 |
St. Tammany |
5,325 |
Tangipahoa |
219 |
Tensas |
1 |
Terrebonne |
482 |
Union |
3 |
Vermillion |
619 |
Vernon |
26 |
Washington |
307 |
Webster |
4 |
W. Baton Rouge |
4 |
West Carroll |
1 |
West Feliciana |
3 |
TOTAL |
33,106* |
*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, 24-Jan-2006 10:18:20