Louisiana Weekly Housing Update
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Release Number: 1603-410
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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 the 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 18, there were 53,714 occupied travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industrial, group and commercial sites; 27 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:
| Type | Units Occupied |
|---|---|
| Travel Trailer & Mobile Home Individual Assistance |
53,714* |
| Apartments | 27 |
| Federal Housing HUD - Housing & Urban Development USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture |
3,010 |
| TOTAL: | 56,751 |
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 |
77 |
Allen |
40 |
Ascension |
161 |
Assumption |
42 |
Avoyelles |
77 |
Beauregard |
267 |
Bienville |
2 |
Bossier |
53 |
Caddo |
61 |
Calcasieu |
3,851 |
Caldwell |
2 |
Cameron |
726 |
Catahoula |
8 |
Claiborne |
4 |
Concordia |
78 |
DeSoto |
2 |
East Baton Rouge |
1,530 |
East Carroll |
4 |
East Feliciana |
29 |
Evangeline |
52 |
Franklin |
1 |
Grant |
17 |
Iberia |
897 |
Iberville |
32 |
Jackson |
18 |
Jefferson |
15,794 |
Jefferson Davis |
313 |
La Salle |
16 |
Lafayette |
250 |
Lafourche |
368 |
Lincoln |
4 |
Livingston |
397 |
Madison |
1 |
Morehouse |
2 |
Natchitoches |
28 |
Orleans |
7,820** |
Ouachita |
107 |
Plaquemines |
2,378 |
Pointe Coupee |
63 |
Rapides |
33 |
Red River |
11 |
Richland |
1 |
Sabine |
19 |
St. Bernard |
4,388 |
St. Charles |
748 |
St. Helena |
136 |
St. James |
137 |
St. John the Baptist |
304 |
St. Landry |
102 |
St. Martin |
71 |
St. Mary |
169 |
St. Tammany |
8,493 |
Tangipahoa |
497 |
Tensas |
3 |
Terrebonne |
796 |
Union |
16 |
Vermillion |
1,119 |
Vernon |
58 |
Washington |
615 |
Webster |
7 |
W. Baton Rouge |
4 |
West Carroll |
2 |
West Feliciana |
4 |
Winn |
1 |
TOTAL |
53,310** |
* Total occupied units include 404 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, 21-Mar-2006 09:01:34