Road Home Application Deadline Tomorrow

At one time or another, there have been as many as twenty-eight hundred Hurricane Katrina victims living in Middle Tennessee.

Those who lived in Louisiana during this hurricane and hurricane Rita have until tomorrow to apply to a program called the Road Home. It provides money for former Louisianans to repair their houses and sell them to the state or to repair their houses and move back into them.

Mike Mayeux and his wife moved to Mount Juliet from Louisiana after the hurricane. Both their home and business were destroyed.

Last week Mayeux applied for aid for his business because he had borrowed a lot of money to restart it in Tennessee.

He says even though he’s not certain whether he will get any help, the application is worth a shot, since the deadline is tomorrow.

“We were just trying to see if we could get a little bit of help so we don’t have to start completely over at this point. Any little help on paying back some of that debt, and I’m trying to start a new business, is a good thing.”

In 2005 there were about nine hundred thousand people displaced by the two hurricanes. The two-year-old Road Home program has given about seven-point-six million dollars in aid since then.

Applications can be sent in by phone or email until midnight tomorrow.

To see the application options click here.