Limbo

The unintended consequences of home buyout programmes on peripheral communities

Bibliographic Data

ID12962995
AuthorsSherri Brokopp Binder (0000-0002-8004-9407, corresponding author), Liesel Ashley Ritchie (0000-0002-9960-3260, Oklahoma State University), Rose Bender (0000-0001-8169-0039), Alexis Thiel, Charlene K Baker (0000-0001-7223-6424, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Emily Badillo (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), Sophia Goodfellow, Bethann Kulp, Paige Weir (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Year2020
Volume19
Issue5
Pages488-507
Publication date2020-01-20
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Hazards (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1878-0059 • E-ISSN: 1747-7891
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17477891.2020.1714537
OpenAlexW3002344174
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited43

Home buyout programmes are designed to permanently relocate households away from areas that are vulnerable to future hazards, though their impacts are not well understood. Among the least understood impacts of these programmes are those related to non-participating households located near buyout zones. Here, we present findings from a study of Oakwood, NY, a peripheral community that was impacted by a buyout programme in a neighbouring community. Drawing on qualitative data collected three-and-a-half years after Hurricane Sandy, we examine the experiences of affected households through the lens of Conservation of Resources theory. We find that residents of the peripheral community experienced a suite of losses associated with the implementation of the buyout, including losses in the physical environment that impacted their sense of safety, losses in conditions resources reflecting a perception that the government had failed to act in their best interests, and the threat of long-term financial losses associated with post-buyout land use decisions over which they had no control. Taken together, these losses contributed to an experience of stalled recovery that left residents in a permanent state of limbo. Policy implications related to the consideration of peripheral communities in the assessment and implementation of buyouts are discussed

Business · Government (linguistics · Perception · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Finance

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