STATE ACCEPTING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ACTION PLAN AMENDMENT TO EXPAND RELOCATION ASSISTANCE ELIGIBILITY - L'Observateur - L'Observateur

Published 7:29 americium Thursday, October 20, 2022

The Louisiana Office of Community Development is accepting nationalist comments connected an enactment program amendment to grow relocation assistance successful the Louisiana Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments programme to see respective households located connected Isle de Jean Charles.

The 14-day nationalist remark play for APA 7 starts Wednesday, Oct. 19, and ends Tuesday, Nov. 1.

The enactment program amendment and entree to taxable nationalist comments are disposable connected the OCD website at https://www.doa.la.gov/doa/ocd/policy-and-reports/apa/.

After accepting nationalist comments, the authorities volition taxable the program to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for last national approval.

Background The archetypal beneficiaries of the National Disaster Resilience Competition’s LASAFE relocation assistance programme are low- to moderate-income households located extracurricular of the Morganza to the Gulf Structural Protection System successful Terrebonne Parish.

Last described in Action Plan Amendment 4, the relocation assistance programme is disposable to eligible residents who are not portion of the Isle de Jean Charles resettlement program, of which determination are astir seven.

After extended outreach and connection with this population, nary of the non-participant households wanted the relocation assistance. However, respective of the land households who did not privation to enactment successful the resettlement programme person since applied for and been determined eligible for participation.

Change This alteration volition let the recently participating land households located extracurricular of the Morganza to the Gulf Structural Protection System to relocate to caller homes connected higher, safer crushed astatine The New Isle resettlement site.

HUD considers NDR APA 7 substantial, arsenic it involves a alteration successful beneficiaries and benefits.

The ceremonial nationalist remark play for APA 7 begins today, Oct. 19, and continues until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1.

Residents, assemblage leaders and elected officials tin presumption and remark connected the program by clicking here and selecting the respective APA link.