I also believe that it is critically important to address the social service needs of Louisiana families...
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Edwards highlights the importance of mental health support for disaster-affected families.
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To put the truly historic nature of this flood into perspective, south Louisiana received more rain in 48 hours than the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexico in 18 days.
Louisiana's housing need is projected to exceed $1.2 billion alone, with an outlook of $3 billion in economic loss.
As bad as things have been over the last couple of weeks, they`ve just been tend to move in the wrong direction, 2907 individuals in the hospital with COVID-19. That`s the highest we`ve ever had in any given day. We`re in a bad place.
I think the manufactured housing unit program has been too slow. It hasn't been responsive.





