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Application deadline set for island residents eligible For homes in Isle de Jean Charles resettlementDate: 01/14/2020 The Louisiana Office of Community Development has set Jan. 31 as the application deadline for residents of Isle de Jean Charles eligible for either a new home in The New Isle community or an existing home in Louisiana. The Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement is part of a federally funded, first-of its kind effort to move a community of island... |
The Feds are spending $48 million to move his village. But he doesn't want to go.By: Bill Weir Source: CNN Date: 04/02/2019 Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana (CNN) -- The plans are grand -- a brand new community with homes, baseball fields, fishing ponds, a meeting hall and a solar farm to generate electricity to sell. |
State of La Selects Site for Isle De Jean Charles ResettlementDate: 03/20/2019 Residents of the environmentally at-risk Isle de Jean Charles are a step closer to a resilient and historically contextual resettlement community. The Louisiana Office of Community Development is starting the process of purchasing a 515-acre tract of high ground near Schriever in northern Terrebonne Parish for $11.7 million. Today’s... |
State closes purchase of land for Isle de Jean Charles climate refugeesBy: Faimon A. Roberts III Source: The Advocate Date: 01/10/2019 The state has closed on the $11.7 million purchase of a 515-acre tract of land near Thibodaux that will be the new home of the current residents of Isle de Jean Charles, whose narrow strip of land is under threat from the rising Gulf of Mexico. |
State of Louisiana Buys Land for Isle De Jean Charles ResettlementDate: 01/09/2019 The Louisiana Land Trust on behalf of the Office of Community Development is purchasing 515 acres of farmland in the Schriever area of Terrebonne Parish to serve as the resettlement site for the residents of Isle de Jean Charles. The $11.7 million purchase continues the resettlement of the residents from their island community in lower Terrebonne... |
Confronting the Costs of Coastal Land LossBy: Laura Maggi Source: Route Fifty Date: 11/08/2018 The Louisiana coast is disappearing, acres of land eroding away every day. It’s a well known fact, which for years has prompted commissions, studies and development of new infrastructure to rechannel Mississippi River sediment back into the wetlands where it is needed. |
Don't Label Them Climate Change Refugees, Says a Louisiana Planner, They're PioneersBy: Mathew D. Sanders Source: Common Edge Date: 08/23/2018 In Louisiana, real estate is a commodity. According to the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, more than 1,900 square miles have been lost since the 1930s, and an additional 4,120 square miles could be lost over the next 50 years. |
Prospects Are Looking Up for This Gulf Coast Tribe Relocating to Higher GroundBy: Doug Herman Source: Smithsonian Magazine Date: 08/09/2018 As Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles slips away, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe plans community renewal and a museum for their new home. |
'Climate refugees': Gulf Coast isle becomes test case with push to relocate residentsBy: James Varney Source: The Washington Times Date: 06/05/2018 |