The state’s Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program is continuing to move forward with more than 13-hundred travel trailers already placed in the hardest-hit parishes for those affected by the storm, noting that “of that number we’ve got 866 families leased in. That’s GOHSEP acting director, Casey Tingle, who says the state purchased nearly 21-hundred of the trailers under the program announced by Governor Edwards in early October to serve as a bridge to help displaced families until FEMA’s Direct Housing mission gets up and running.
Tingle says the current pace of the trailers being newly occupied is about 40 a day. “We’re trying to reach out and schedule appointments to lease people in and to make the connection to get them into their units,” says Tingle.
Tingle spokes of how many families may get access to these trailers by next month, just over three months after Ida made landfall. “Our goal all along has been to get about 2,000 families housed by the first part of December and it looks like we’re on pace to do that,” says Tingle.
The Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program offers temporary, non-congregate sheltering. Meaning that survivors of the storm have a living space until other temporary permanent housing options become available to them.
According to Tingle, Terrebonne has 284 travel trailers already occupied while Lafourche and Jefferson parishes have a total of 265 occupied. The total for St. John, St. Charles, St James and Plaquemine parishes totals 271. Just over 700 additional travel trailers are being prepared for deployment to seven of the parishes hardest hit by Ida.
To register with the state’s Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program or to check the status of your registration, visit the website IdaShelteringLA.com or call 1-844-268-0301. If interested in FEMA’s temporary housing assistance visit www.DisasterAssistance.gov.
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