Experiences of vulnerable households in low-attention disasters: Marshalltown, Iowa (United States) after the EF3 Tornado

Hamideh, Sara; Sen, Payel

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102595

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“…Disinvestment in affordable housing before the disaster and hence exacerbation of unmet housing needs after the disaster, many changes in the local public housing recovery plans, limited, uncertain, and delayed funding, and bureaucratic hurdles in allocating funds have resulted in a protracted public housing recovery in the Lumberton case. While these factors were found in this case study, we argue that several of them are present in many other disaster-prone communities across the nation due to the structural and nationwide shortcomings of both public housing and disaster recovery programs (Hamideh and Rongerude 2018;Hamideh and Sen 2022;Martin 2021;Martin et al 2019). This disaster recovery delay exacerbates and further intensifies the long-term shrinkage of low-income housing stocks in the United States in turn further increasing the vulnerability of low-income households due to their precarious housing conditions.…”

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Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew

Khajehei

Hamideh

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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The floods caused by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 affected Lumberton, a socioeconomically diverse city in North Carolina with 729 public housing units. Public housing residents face unique challenges in accessing resources and post-disaster temporary accommodations, further delaying their recovery compared to other survivors. This paper investigates the obstacles to public housing recovery and the residents’ recovery challenges using descriptive statistics, mapping, and qualitative analysis in Lumberton. Findings show the dependency of public housing units’ recovery on assistance policies and decisions of various organizations, including local housing authorities. Multiple changes in recovery plans and limited, uncertain, delayed funding and bureaucratic obstacles to funding allocation slow the units’ recovery and prolong the residents’ displacement, adversely affecting their recovery. Hence, pre-disaster resilience initiatives should address these vulnerabilities and the recovery policy's limitations to support public housing units and residents’ recovery. Moreover, affordable housing recovery must become a priority in national housing recovery policies.

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