News & Updates for Tangipahoa Parish

BATON ROUGE, La. – FEMA and the State of Louisiana are working hard together to ensure that survivors of Hurricane Ida living in hard-hit parishes have safe places to stay temporarily while they take steps to recover.

To help address the shortage of sheltering and housing options in Southeast Louisiana, the state is establishing some temporary solutions, including a non-congregate sheltering program using recreational vehicles, such as travel trailers. Non-congregate shelters are locations where an individual or family can[...]

If you reside in Tangipahoa Parish and are unable to pay your rent or utilities this month, you can contact Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge at 225-336-8700 no later than October 22, 2021, to find out if you are eligible for assistance. 

***This assistance is available for a limited time.***

For rental assistance[...]

BATON ROUGE — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that the state of Louisiana, through the Governor’s Office Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, is opening the Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program, which will provide temporary housing, like travel trailers, to people in heavily impacted parishes where other sheltering options are currently unavailable. Those whose homes were destroyed or currently unlivable can begin[...]

The deadline for Louisianans to apply to the Blue Roof Program through the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has been extended! The new deadline is[...]

FEMA has placed resources and numbers on one page for Hurricane Ida survivors. You can download that page by[...]