Louisiana Weekly Housing Update 

Release Date: March 14, 2006
Release Number: 1603-398

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The road to recovery begins with finding a safe place to live; therefore, providing temporary housing is an urgent 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 March 11, there were 51,396 travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industrial, group and commercial sites occupied, as well as 3,010 federal housing resources provided by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) occupied.

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
Individual Assistance

51,396*

Federal Housing
HUD - Housing & Urban Development

USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture

3,010

TOTAL:

54,406

* Total occupied includes 386 Louisiana Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees who have placed their travel trailer or mobile home in Mississippi or Alabama .

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

75

Allen

39

Ascension

158

Assumption

42

Avoyelles

77

Beauregard

255

Bienville

2

Bossier

51

Caddo

52

Calcasieu

3,746

Caldwell

2

Cameron

689

Catahoula

8

Claiborne

4

Concordia

79

DeSoto

2

East Baton Rouge

1,396

East Carroll

3

East Feliciana

28

Evangeline

52

Grant

17

Iberia

874

Iberville

31

Jackson

16

Jefferson

15,341

Jefferson Davis

305

La Salle

16

Lafayette

244

Lafourche

359

Lincoln

4

Livingston

393

Madison

1

Morehouse

2

Natchitoches

28

Orleans

7,154**

Ouachita

108

Plaquemines

2,95

Pointe Coupee

63

Rapides

33

Red River

11

Richland

1

Sabine

19

St. Bernard

4,135

St. Charles

720

St. Helena

135

St. James

135

St. John the Baptist

280

St. Landry

101

St. Martin

66

St. Mary

162

St. Tammany

8,281

Tangipahoa

467

Tensas

3

Terrebonne

787

Union

15

Vermillion

1,091

Vernon

58

Washington

578

Webster

6

W. Baton Rouge

3

West Carroll

2

West Feliciana

4

Winn

1

TOTAL

51,010**

**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, 14-Mar-2006 09:59:00