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The Road Home Program
(Separate Website)
State website offers homeowners and rental property owners details about the program and tools and resources.
By: Road2la.org
Louisiana Rebuilds Web Site
(Separate Website)
Check out this site, described on its home page as: "LouisianaRebuilds.info was established to be a trusted, online destination for residents affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing critical information for those who have returned home as well as those who are still displaced."
After a Disaster: Repairing Your Home
(Separate Website)
Learn how to avoid a rip-off.
By: Federal Trade Commission
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Spanish / Español
Disaster Related Fraud Information
(Separate Website)
About price gouging, charity fraud, home repair scams, and more.
By: Louisiana Attorney General
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc.
(Separate Website)
FLAG is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.
FEMA Utility Subsidy Program FAQs Information about reimbursing public assistance applicants for utilities paid on behalf of evacuees who participated in the Section 403 Interim Sheltering Program.
Homeowners' Property Rights in New Orleans After Katrina
Questions about rebuilding? Eminent Domain? Read this great new resource.
By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
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Housing Justice Network
(Separate Website)
HJN focuses on public and subsidized housing, Section 8 assistance, single family housing foreclosures, fair housing, CDBG and HOME programs, the housing programs of the Rural Housing Service, and more
By: National Housing Law Project
HUD Housing Resources
(Separate Website)
Gateway to HUD legal information and self-help.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
SBA Disaster Loans FAQs
(Separate Website)
How much you can borrow, what's covered, how you can spend the money, paying it back, how to get the loan.
By: Small Business Administration (SBA)
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Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Small Business Administration (SBA) Hurricane Resources
(Separate Website)
Information and services to help you recover from a disaster.
By: SBA
Step by Step Instructions for Pro Insurance Petition with Pauper Ionstructions for completing pro insurance petition with application for pauper status
By: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
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