A pre-existing housing crisis in Lake Charles, along with slow federal aid, have left some renters unhoused for nearly six months.
This story is third in a three-part series supported by the Pulitzer Center about how southwest Louisiana is recovering from Hurricanes Laura and Delta amid the pandemic. Read the first and second. Sasha Miller thought was her year to thrive. She had a steady job as a personal care attendant at a center for seniors and people with disabilities in Lake Charles, La. She was preparing to earn a certificate in sterile processing technology and wanted to land a higher-paying position at a hospital.
She recently left a relationship where she experienced domestic violence. Things were looking up for Miller and her five-year-old daughter. Then, on Aug. Miller evacuated to Biloxi, Miss. When she returned, the city was barely habitable, with widespread power outages and limited access to potable water. Strong winds had blown out windows downtown and collapsed houses; powerlines littered the roads. Fairview Crossing, the apartment complex Miller lived in since her daughter was an infant, sustained substantial damage, but her apartment was mostly spared.
A tree hit the balcony, and some water seeped in from outside. Later that month, she called Fairview Crossing to ask about returning and learned that they were ending all leases because of hurricane damage. Miller said she was told she had five days to get out. Southerly was not able to reach Fairview Crossing management after multiple attempts by phone. We will continue to monitor the progress and restoration of our community.
Louisiana law allows landlords to seek possession of their property to make repairs if a rental is damaged enough to warrant that tenants not live there during the process. If external circumstances like a hurricane destroy rented property, leases end automatically though landlords must still go to court to formally evict tenants.
Texas has a similar rule , which led to a spate of evictions in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane crushed her car, and the idea of driving circles around the state in search of aid frustrated her. She hitched a ride with another sister to Houston, where she ran through the last of her FEMA assistance paying for a hotel room for herself, her daughter, and a disabled relative.
Southwest Louisiana lacked adequate shelter capacity for those experiencing homelessness before the storms, according to Denise Durel, president and CEO of the United Way of Southwest Louisiana. The five-parish region has no family shelter, so a single mother with a child, like Miller, might have to go as far as Houston to find one. When the storms hit, most shelters in the area had to close because of damage.
Within weeks of pitching her tent, Miller and her family were back on the road to Houston to escape Hurricane Delta, a Category 2 that hit the same region on Oct.
Miller can hardly count how many times she has called FEMA representatives for more aid. She applied for continued rental assistance twice and was denied— once for lacking all of the necessary documentation, and another because the scan of her check stubs was fuzzy.
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