Housing Recovery Needs

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• Housing Recovery Needs
• Sarah M. Stack, MPA, CFM
• UNO-CHART

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• CHART
• Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and
  Technology
• Applied social science hazard research center
• To support community sustainability
  in light of natural, environmental,
  technological, and homeland
  security
  risks to which the
  region is vulnerable

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• Resources
• www.chart.uno.edu
• www.floodhelp.uno.edu
• www.louisianarebuilds.info
• www.gnocdc.org
• www.cityofno.com

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• Purpose
• To produce a toolbox of resources that spurs
  residential recovery through homeowner-focused
  resources and key residential policy innovations.
  
• In the toolbox
• Housing recovery indicators
• Policy suggestions

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• Background
• Study Area Boundaries
• Vista Park and most of Oak Park

Paris and Robert E. Lee
St. Bernard
Filmore
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• Background
• The Problem
• Eight feet of floodwater after Katrina
• Slow recovery
• Type of housing
• Mostly single-family homes with apartments in
  both neighborhoods.
• Pre-Katrina mix (slab, piers) in Oak Park,
  mostly slabs in Vista Park

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• Data Profile
• Repetitive flood loss claims data
• Rain gauge data
• Road Home data
• Census data
• Permit data
• Neighborhood survey
• Housing type
• Rebuild status
• Rebuild status by housing type

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• Data Profile
• Collection of Social Data
• Incentives for rebuilding
• Obstacles to rebuilding
• Residents vision of a recovered neighborhood

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• Preliminary Obstacles Assessment
• Delays in Road Home monies
• Options for remediation for owners of slab houses
• Contractor Fraud
• Concern over neighborhood blight and vacant
  properties

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Indicators Policies Action
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