You know, there is a new report on the housing damage from last year's catastrophic floods in eastern Kentucky, and it estimates it will cost about 450 to $950 million to rebuild those homes.

And that figure depends on how many seek to relocate to less flood prone areas.

This according to a just released report by the Ohio River Valley Institute and the Appalachian Citizen's Law Center.

It also shows that almost half of those living in damaged homes are children or seniors and have the least ability to pay for repairs.

Two thirds of those in flood damaged homes, according to the report, have a gross annual income of $30,000 or less.

Adrienne Bush, executive director of the Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky, told us in Frankfort today that groups are asking state lawmakers to provide real financial relief to those still in need.

Our hope for the General Assembly is to provide a real legislative solution to take this opportunity of the short session and provide some real relief.

Stand in the gap between FEMA assistance drying up and potential later federal relief so that people kind of have a plan of what they will be able to do in terms of remaining in their community, rebuilding, that sort of thing.

And flood ravaged eastern Kentucky.

Bush says many are still an unsustainable housing situation, and groups like hers are mobilizing to ease the burden.

We had we have been talking about a strategy called a heart that would create a disaster housing trust fund.

We would ask that that that be seeded with 150 million this session.

We also recognize we're not in a budget session where in a short session, but if there are other non budgetary things that we can do to create this infrastructure so that we can both respond to the tornadoes and the floods and prepare for potential future disasters so that the legislature could step in during a special session and say, okay, we've got this housing infrastructure in place, here is some funding to go towards it.

I mean, that would be ideal.

The legislature did a good job stepping in back in August in the special session.

We just really need them to finish the job now that they're in regular session.

Today was the last day for bills to be filed in the Senate for a House originating bills.

The filing deadline is tomorrow.

Bush says she's optimistic that even if a bill isn't filed soon, lawmakers still have the opportunity to provide more disaster relief aid and this nine budget session.