re: Have you completed the Restore LA Flood Survey?

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LMI and AMI?

And then I get 25% of work completed? I think I remember you saying you didn't use a contractor. Neither did I. We did much of the work ourselves. I have every receipt of course.

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LMI means low to moderate income, which means your household pulls in less than 80% of AMI (Area Median Income). Baton Rouge AMI for a family of four is $64,900, which means my wife and I would have to make less than $52K gross income to be considered LMI.

The reimbursement is going to be a little messy for later Phase applicants, and I'm not totally sure it's been worked out completely (like, how are they really going to verify expenditures efficiently for those who went the DIY route? Not everything on every Lowe's/HD/Walmart/Amazon/etc. receipt is 100% construction-related). That's even assuming there are funds left by the time they get to non-poors at the tail end of the phases.

It sucks that Phases I and II are entirely income-based. As for 25%, that's 25% reimbursement of "eligible repairs," so you'll need to have a shitload of documentation/receipts--and again, I don't remember what HUD's requirements are that dictate whether you'll have a staff of case managers going down every line item on every receipt you give them, striking out the gatorade and gum purchases, or determining if a new switch/bulb/fixture of some sort is an upgrade or a replacement, which would mean marking some percentage of that purchase eligible, only to give you 25% reimbursement of a percentage of the cost of an item.

At least the remaining repairs you have will be reimbursed 50-100% depending on your income. But they may force you to use a contractor for prospective construction, which will suck if your income is over 120% AMI.


Me, I'm in Phase VI. I mean, I guess I could technically say I'm phase III because I still have to put some trim around the backdoor exterior, and I'm working on some personal projects outside that weren't entirely caused by the flood (I have a rotting deck that I'm turning into a patio. It was already in bad shape and the flood pretty much did it in, although I was planning to demo it pre-flood).

Phase VI reimbursements may not even happen. They aren't even authorized by the State yet.


The State needs to hurry the hell up and award the program management contract. To the right bidder.