2008

• About Us
  Warm Welcome Gulf Coast, an initiative of Back Bay Mission, is an outreach campaign to position affordable housing as critical to rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Learn More.
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  Warm Welcome is a grassroots campaign that depends on broad and diverse support and participation. To learn more about what you can do to help, please contact Dena Wittmann at Back Bay Mission: tel 228.432.0301
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  To learn more about Warm Welcome and its campaign for affordable housing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, please contact: Dena Wittmann, Back Bay Mission, tel. 228.432.0301
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Mississippi 35 Months Later

• More than 90,000 housing units in Mississippi suffered major damage or were destroyed by Katrina
• 23,002 people in Mississippi still receive housing assistance
• 7,552 FEMA trailers and MEMA cottages are still in operation in Mississippi, and 1/3 of FEMA trailer occupants are elderly and/or disabled
• 336 households are living in hotels and motels awaiting permanent housing
• 631 households are receiving FEMA rental assistance
• 54% of recipients of FEMA direct housing assistance were homeowners pre-Katrina
• 1% of recipients of FEMA direct housing assistance had ever previously received housing assistance
• 218 units (4%) of a total of 5,624 units awarded tax credits in the lower three counties have been built and occupied since Katrina
• 9 developments awarded tax credits have been denied permits, preventing the construction of over 850 units of affordable rental housing
• Wages have remained stable while the median sales price of single-family homes has risen 40% from pre-Katrina prices
• Homeowner insurance rates have increased 91% since Katrina

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Warm Welcome Gulf Coast is an initiative of Back Bay Mission, a Biloxi-based agency of the United Church of Christ.