BATON
ROUGE, LA - Attorney General Jeff Landry is calling on Governor Edwards to step
up efforts, and put adequate pressure on the Biden
Administration, to provide necessary
housing for the victims of Hurricane Ida.
In a letter to the "leader of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness," Attorney General Landry wrote: "I urge you to make this an
immediate priority. I also urge you to put immediate pressure on the White
House and FEMA to get temporary housing units into these impacted Parishes now,
rather than weeks from now."
The AG's letter states that while wall-to-wall media coverage of Ida has ended, needs
remain; and officials in Washington can not be allowed to turn a blind eye.
Attorney General Landry and his team have heard from
local leaders throughout the Coastal Parishes impacted that housing is still
weeks away despite an urgent need for thousands of units.
"Together
let's not lose sight of this urgent need or
allow the White House or FEMA to simply look the other way," concluded Attorney General Landry.