Louisiana Weekly Housing Update 

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
Individual Assistance

63,220*

Federal Housing
HUD - Housing & Urban Development

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.

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, 18-Apr-2006 13:53:25