[StBernard] The Road Home Opens First Mobile Housing Assistacnce Center

[Westley Annis]

The Road Home <http://www.road2LA.org> 	 

About The Program

The Road Home program is designed to help residents of Louisiana affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita get back into their homes as quickly and fairly as possible. This groundbreaking program represents the largest single housing recovery program in U.S. history. Working together, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Office of Community Development created The Road Home program with the approval of the Louisiana Legislature. The program affords eligible homeowners up to $150,000 in compensation for their losses to get back into their homes.

To start your application to The Road Home program, visit 
www.road2LA.org

 
or call 
1.888.ROAD.2.LA (1.888.762.3252).
TTY callers use 711 relay or 800.846.5277.

NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Road Home Opens First Mobile Housing Assistance Center


BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 22, 2007 -In an effort to expedite the appointment process, The Road Home is opening its first mobile housing assistance center in Gretna, La. The center will open on January 22 and will operate for 10 days, closing on January 31. 

The mobile center is intended to accommodate appointments from the Plaquemines center, which currently has appointments scheduled into March. Homeowners with appointments at the Plaquemines center are currently being contacted with the option to reschedule their appointment at the mobile center.

Housing advisors for the center are part of mobile deployment teams specifically dedicated to staffing this and future mobile centers. When no mobile centers are deployed, these advisors act as supplemental staff for permanent Housing Assistance Centers across the state.

The program is currently analyzing data and working with Road Home community outreach teams to plan for future mobile centers, both in-state and out-of-state, to reach affected Louisiana residents who may be eligible for the program.

"We are making every effort to ensure that families move through the system as quickly as possible," said Michael Taylor, director of the Disaster Recovery Unit, Office of Community Development. "We currently have over 30,000 homeowners who have not yet scheduled their appointment with the housing assistance centers. It's vitally important that these homeowners call the program today to make an appointment."

Homeowners who have applied to the program, but have not yet scheduled their appointment may do so by calling 1-888-ROAD-2-LA and choosing prompt #4.



###