Louisiana Weekly Housing Update 

Release Date: April 4, 2006
Release Number: 1603-425

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BATON ROUGE, La. –- Finding a safe place to live is one of first steps on the road to recovery and providing temporary housing is a top 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 1 there were 59,389 occupied travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industrial, group and commercial sites; 29 occupied apartment units; 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
Individual Assistance

59,389*

Apartments

29

Federal Housing
HUD - Housing & Urban Development

USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture

3,010

TOTAL:

62,428

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

80

Allen

43

Ascension

169

Assumption

43

Avoyelles

84

Beauregard

285

Bienville

2

Bossier

55

Caddo

81

Calcasieu

4,100

Caldwell

2

Cameron

826

Catahoula

8

Claiborne

4

Concordia

83

DeSoto

2

East Baton Rouge

1,609

East Carroll

4

East Feliciana

31

Evangeline

53

Franklin

1

Grant

17

Iberia

928

Iberville

32

Jackson

18

Jefferson

16,844

Jefferson Davis

367

La Salle

18

Lafayette

277

Lafourche

392

Lincoln

8

Livingston

422

Madison

2

Morehouse

2

Natchitoches

29

Orleans

9,944**

Ouachita

115

Plaquemines

2,807

Pointe Coupee

66

Rapides

38

Red River

11

Richland

1

Sabine

22

St. Bernard

4,881

St. Charles

792

St. Helena

143

St. James

141

St. John the Baptist

322

St. Landry

109

St. Martin

76

St. Mary

185

St. Tammany

8,998

Tangipahoa

564

Tensas

4

Terrebonne

879

Union

19

Vermillion

1,175

Vernon

65

Washington

670

Webster

8

W. Baton Rouge

5

West Carroll

2

West Feliciana

4

Winn

1

TOTAL

58,973**

* Total occupied units include 416 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, 04-Apr-2006 10:58:35