Assisted Resettlement and Community Viability on Louisiana's Gulf Coast Proceedings of a Workshop (2023) / Chapter Skim
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6 Housing, Health, and Planning in the Context of Resettlement and Receiving Communities
6 Housing, Health, and Planning in the Context of Resettlement and Receiving Communities
Pages 55-66
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COMMUNITY STORIES FROM TERREBONNE PARISH Kelli Cunningham, Director, Terrebonne Parish Housing and Human Services Cunningham helps people who are homeless or who have been displaced due to a natural disaster such as Hurricane Ida. For category one through category three hurricanes, Terrebonne Parish typically shelters in place and opens as a shelter the Terrebonne Parish Municipal Auditorium.
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Jessica Domangue, Terrebonne Parish Councilwoman, Houma District 5 Domangue explained that her run for office was spurred by the problems and shortfall of resources she saw in her work as a licensed clinical social worker even before Hurricane Ida. After recently being introduced to the idea of climate migration and the related idea of receiving communities, she now sees a need to start putting federal funding into the creation of receiving communities.
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For example, currently, there are no regulations in Terrebonne Parish relating to recreational vehicle parks, but Pulaski noted that this issue will likely have to be considered in future planning efforts. Mark Goodson, Principal, Planning and Resilience Practice Lead, CSRS Goodson spoke about voluntary resettlement and stated that planning as early as possible for implementation is critical, no matter whether it is a project like Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish, or a more traditional buyout program.
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was created after Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Since then, there has been an evolution in the distribution of federal funding away from replacing what existed before a disaster -- which involved prohibiting the use of funds for mitigation projects -- towards providing funds to be used specifically to mitigate damage and reduce future risk.
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Bernard Parish, which lies east of New Orleans, was depopulated and many residents moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Those receiving communities lacked adequate infrastructure, housing, and schools, and were unprepared to receive additional residents.
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. Assisted resettlement and receiving communities in Louisiana.
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To him, a critical part of making places safer is not only improving scientific information and knowl edge about future risks but also applying that knowledge to regulations. The Certified Sites Program, run through Louisiana Economic Development, identifies sites around the state that may be ideally suited for industrial development.60 This program undertakes an initial due diligence process on those sites so that an inventory will be available when a site selector is looking for a potential location.
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PLANNING AND INVESTMENTS FOR RECEIVING COMMUNITIES AND DECLINING COMMUNITIES Colten asked how local and state planning efforts can take displaced people into consideration. He mentioned the Coastal Master Plan's component that deals with the relocation of people, called voluntary acquisition.
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PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS OF DISPLACEMENT A committee member, Lynn Goldman, asked about public health e fforts for those who have been displaced and need resources that may not be available in the receiving community. Cunningham answered that their food banks had been overwhelmed, and Community Services Block Grant funding has been used to issue food vouchers for those meeting income requirements.
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He would like to see a concerted group effort to establish "cousin communities," which could help with consistency -- meaning, for example, establishing throughout the region similar building inspection processes which could help to avoid confusion for contractors. Domangue noted that Terrebonne Parish has formed working relationships with other parishes that have gone through similar situations.
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; • Many panelists felt that community involvement and engagement can be essential from the start of planning to help strategize, con duct, and carry out any plans for resettlement; and • On the topic of leadership engagement with community members, multiple participants voiced support for the idea of making sure leaders are not imposing their will on the community members.
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