Release Date: April 18, 2006
Release Number: 1603-442
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Assisting Louisianans, who are on the road to disaster recovery, with temporary housing continues to be a to p priority for t he 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 19 there were 63,220 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 |
Travel Trailer & Mobile Home |
63,220* |
Federal Housing USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture |
3,010 |
TOTAL: |
66,230 |
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 |
83 |
Allen |
48 |
Ascension |
169 |
Assumption |
50 |
Avoyelles |
87 |
Beauregard |
298 |
Bienville |
2 |
Bossier |
56 |
Caddo |
90 |
Calcasieu |
4,363 |
Caldwell |
1 |
Cameron |
819 |
Catahoula |
8 |
Claiborne |
4 |
Concordia |
86 |
DeSoto |
3 |
East Baton Rouge |
1,648 |
East Carroll |
4 |
East Feliciana |
30 |
Evangeline |
54 |
Franklin |
1 |
Grant |
16 |
Iberia |
955 |
Iberville |
33 |
Jefferson |
17,454 |
Jefferson Davis |
360 |
La Salle |
19 |
Lafayette |
300 |
Lafourche |
409 |
Lincoln |
8 |
Livingston |
433 |
Madison |
3 |
Morehouse |
2 |
Natchitoches |
30 |
Orleans |
11,322** |
Ouachita |
112 |
Plaquemines |
3,110 |
Pointe Coupee |
70 |
Rapides |
44 |
Red River |
10 |
Richland |
1 |
Sabine |
23 |
St. Bernard |
5,226 |
St. Charles |
815 |
St. Helena |
147 |
St. James |
144 |
St. John the Baptist |
329 |
St. Landry |
116 |
St. Martin |
79 |
St. Mary |
194 |
St. Tammany |
9,381 |
Tangipahoa |
662 |
Tensas |
6 |
Terrebonne |
912 |
Union |
19 |
Vermillion |
1,230 |
Vernon |
70 |
Washington |
707 |
Webster |
8 |
W. Baton Rouge |
6 |
West Carroll |
3 |
West Feliciana |
4 |
Winn |
1 |
TOTAL |
62,681** |
* Total occupied units include 510 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.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 18-Apr-2006 13:53:25