The first member of the committee to speak on the issue was Sen. John Kennedy, R-La, who said the National Flood Insurance Program needed to be reworked. The old model before Risk Rating 2.0 was flawed, but the new model is worse, he said.
Source: The Advertiser
Hurricane Laura damaged the only hospital serving south Cameron Parish. A slow recovery process and political controversy mean there’s still no emergency care.
Rising flood insurance costs under FEMA’s new Risk Rating 2.0 system are pushing up costs for Lafayette homeowners. But the rising rates belie a largely unseen level of risk.
20,965 policies in Lafayette Parish will spike, according to data provided by FEMA, which oversees the NFIP.
The state is not only recovering from Hurricane Ida, but also from the damaging winter storm and spring flooding that occurred earlier this year and the devastation of Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta.
Hotel rooms arranged by local housing advocates kept hundreds of people warm during last week’s crushing freeze. Donations poured in across the Acadiana region. But the makeup of people in need underscores rising housing insecurity in the area.
While coronavirus raged, hundreds found their way to hotels where case managers could connect them with food, doctors and income, often for the first time.
The gist: Identified as a place at “higher risk” for evictions, Lafayette will receive a second and larger round of federal stimulus dollars intended for housing aid during the pandemic. At just under $1.4 million, the block grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development nearly doubles the last allocation Lafayette received, one […]
The Louisiana National Guard delivered FEMA-issued face shields to Our Lady of Lourdes today to help the hospital staff safely care for coronavirus patients.
The gist: Dozens gathered at a private home in Lafayette’s Quail Hollow neighborhood to get answers from public officials on efforts to relieve flooding in what was one of the hardest hit areas in the floods of August 2016. Begging for projects that would make inches of difference, residents were told there was meaningfully little […]
The gist: FEMA will soon announce an overhaul in how it calculates flood risk. The changes, first reported by Bloomberg, could increase premiums, lower property values and change public perception.
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