ENROLLED
2023 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 111
BY REPRESENTATIVE KERNER
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend
temporary housing agreements and to postpone the requirement to pay rent for
survivors of Hurricane Ida.
WHEREAS, Hurricane Ida devastated Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson, and other
areas in southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2021; and
WHEREAS, at the request of the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security,
FEMA approved a six month extension of its Direct Housing Assistance; and
WHEREAS, since March 1, 2023, survivors of Hurricane Ida have been paying a
reduced rental rate or have not been required to pay rent; and
WHEREAS, beginning June 1, 2023, FEMA will begin to charge survivors fair
market rent for use of a FEMA unit; and
WHEREAS, charging fair market rent may result in monthly payments up to one
thousand seven hundred dollars per month; and
WHEREAS, many survivors live on fixed incomes and their failure to pay the
monthly rent may result in ineligibility to stay in a FEMA unit.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request FEMA to extend temporary housing agreements and to postpone the
requirement to pay rent for survivors of Hurricane Ida.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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