Thousands of Terrebonne Parish residents are still having to resort to tents or storm debris as a shelter following the landfall of Hurricane Ida a month ago today. State Representative Tanner Magee of Houma says his efforts to find decent temporary housing for his constituents have been frustrating. “It’s the worst kind of purgatory, you keep calling, you ask questions, you get runaround answers, you get shoveled to some other person and they say it’s the other person’s fault…it is the most frustrating experience I’ve ever had in my entire life,” said Magee.
He says the feds are making moves to get trailers sent to Terrebonne Parish, but the process is a red tape battle. Magee is critical of FEMA for its failure to move quickly on the mobile home alternative to temporary housing, relying instead on apartments and hotel rooms that aren’t available nearby to those left homeless by Ida.
On a positive note when it comes to temporary housing, Magee says FEMA has sent out a request for proposals for 10-thousand trailers to be located in Terrebonne Parish, but says it’ll be a waiting game. “Now that still has to go through submitting bids and all that process so we’re still looking down the line of actual real trailers.” according to Magee.
With the option of trailers still a waiting game on the fulfillment of RFP’s for the structures. Magee says “the ball’s” in FEMA’s court, with the jury still out on when the trailers might begin showing up.
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