The problem: Public housing communities by definition are socially vulnerable: they are only available to lowest income households, with more residents of color and higher concentrations of poverty. Given a steady national trend of dismantling public housing communities across the nation, a growing number of rent-burdened low-income households are competing for a shrinking number of…
Growing Coastal Disaster Hazards As populations rise across the coastal United States, affordable housing is shrinking, aging, and deteriorating, whereas seasonal vacation housing is increasing and improving. Faced with a growing frequency of coastal hazards, affordable housing is disproportionately damaged while the tourism industry, the largest employer in the marine economy, loses revenue. These perilous…
The graph above shows the framework used for matching and integrating the steps of the NIST’s Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (Playbook) with modules in IN-CORE. NIST’s Resilience Planning Playbook is a practical, flexible methodology to set priorities, allocate resources, and manage risks to improve resilience. IN-CORE can provide data and…
Disasters exacerbate existing social and economic trends in places without fundamentally changing them (Kates 1977). The social inequalities in sociopolitical systems before a disaster limit the ability and capacity of different groups of people to cope with and rebound from disasters. Hamideh and Sen (2022) conducted a qualitative case study on the recovery of housing…