The trailers have been at Donald’s Camper Village & Park for a month, waiting for legal papers to be signed and utilities to be hooked up.

Wednesday four of those trailers got their occupants, all evacuees from the Gulf Coast, who moved into the homes for the first time, leaving shelters and other temporary housing in the most recent step on their journey to rebuild their lives.

Soon all the homes, 46 in total, will have evacuees of Hurricane Katrina living in them as FEMA representatives work to get leases signed.

Regina Donald, one of the park’s owners, has been working with FEMA to get utilities connected to each trailer and get people in them.

&8220;We finally got some people in them today and they tell me they’ll place more in the next two days,&8221; Donald said. &8220;They’re putting them in by their registration numbers or for those particularly in need.&8221;

For most, the moving process isn’t difficult. Few have much to move, with only a few clothes, some food and water that’s been donated and a handful of personal belongings left to them.

&8220;We have nothing at all,&8221; Nancy Alfonso said. &8220;It wasn’t hard moving in here because there wasn’t anything to move.&8221;

Alfonso moved into a mobile home with her husband, Martin, and their son Chad and his wife Jessie are in the mobile home next door.

Just behind them is Ronald Houston, in a smaller travel trailer. Houston is particularly proud of his camera and small printer, which prints his pictures, some of the few belongings he has. He has dozens of pictures of the shelter he was staying at in the East Jena Baptist Church and a few from his 56th birthday party just days before New Orleans was hit by the hurricane. Houston wants to return to New Orleans, but he knows that isn’t likely to happen soon.

&8220;I’ll probably be here the 18 months (FEMA provides shelter for evacuees),&8221; Houston said. &8220;Then we’ll see.&8221;

Houston was in New Orleans for five days after the hurricane, living on bottled water and MREs and waiting to be evacuated. He was finally taken out when his heart, which has a blocked valve, began giving him trouble.

Houston, a veteran who retired from the U.S. Postal Service, is still trying to get his VA benefits and disability compensation worked out, he said.

In the meantime, he’ll stay in his brand new trailer, enjoying the privacy and air conditioning and waiting to return home.

&8220;Until I can clean up down there, I’ll be here,&8221; Houston said.