Some displaced residents of New Orleans may soon have a new home at the Polytechnic campus.
ASU has made 10 two-to four-bedroom houses available to evacuees who have not yet found housing.
Only 138 evacuees are still at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. At the height of the operation, more than 500 people called the temporary shelter home.
"At the moment, we're only on a list of potential places to possibly house some of the evacuees," said Christine Lambrakis, assistant public relations director at the Polytechnic campus. "But we are ready if we're needed."
Evacuees that choose to live at the Polytechnic campus won't have to worry about trying to pay rent.
"FEMA and other organizations are lending assistance to people for up to one year to help people get back on their feet," Lambrakis said.
Many of the evacuees are families with school-aged children.
The Williams Community School, which is located on the Polytechnic campus, is home to about 96 students, from kindergarten through sixth grade, and is available to the children of families who chose to take up residence on campus.
The school was designed to support 150 to 200 students.
Rebecca Anderson, a fifth and sixth grade teacher at the Williams school, said that even though the school is available, evacuees aren't likely to utilize it unless they relocate because of the long drive.
The school is waiting for the district to inform them if they need to prepare for the new students.
"So far, we haven't enrolled any of the children," Anderson said.
Reach the reporter at eric.a.fincher@asu.edu.
