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2024 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 57
BY SENATOR FESI
CONGRESS. Memorializes Congress to help all residents of Louisiana who are displaced
by hurricanes.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To memorialize the Congress of the United States to provide a long-term solution for the
3 housing crisis suffered by Louisiana residents displaced due to the devastation of
4 Hurricane Ida.
5 WHEREAS, Hurricane Ida devastated Louisiana on August 29, 2021, destroying
6 property throughout the state, causing many Louisianians to be displaced from their homes;
7 and
8 WHEREAS, after Hurricane Ida, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
9 (FEMA) established a program to reimburse the state for costs incurred by providing
10 temporary shelters in the form of campers; and
11 WHEREAS, the federal aid expired in January of 2023; and
12 WHEREAS, the state absorbed the costs of over two million dollars per month after
13 the FEMA benefits expired; and
14 WHEREAS, the state-sponsored Ida Shelters program ended on Tuesday, April 30,
15 2024, with five hundred fifty-two residents still participating in the program; and
16 WHEREAS, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
17 Preparedness (GOHSEP) has delayed eviction, while considering whether to donate the
18 camper-residences to the respective parishes or offering the residents an opportunity to
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1 purchase the campers at their appraised value; and
2 WHEREAS, while GOHSEP's plan may resolve the immediate needs of the
3 displaced residents, a long-term solution rests with the federal government.
4 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana memorializes
5 the Congress of the United States to provide a long-term solution for the housing crisis
6 suffered by Louisiana residents displaced due to the devastation of Hurricane Ida.
7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be transmitted
8 to the secretary of the United States Senate and the clerk of the United States House of
9 Representatives and to each member of the Louisiana delegation to the United States
10 Congress.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
SCR 57 Original 2024 Regular Session Fesi
Memorializes Congress to provide a long-term solution for the housing crisis suffered by
Louisiana residents displaced due to the devastation of Hurricane Ida.
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