road home is a program funded by the u.s. government which has provided federal grant money to help louisiana residents rebuild or sell houses severely damaged by hurricanes katrina and rita. this federally funded program is administered by the state of louisiana. according to the road home website, as of december 2017, the program had disbursed a total of $9.022 billion in awards to 130,052 individual homeowners in the area, with grants averaging $69,379 each. these are cash grants, not low interest loans, and are received income tax free. they are on top of insurance awards, private or federal, which may have already been received.