Who Gets Emergency Housing Relief? An Analysis of Fema Individual Assistance Data After Hurricane María
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21633702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deepak Lamba-Nieves (Center for a New Economy, San Juan, Puerto Rico), Deepak Lamba‐Nieves (University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, corresponding author), Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei (0000-0002-5257-0959, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1146-1166 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Policy Debate (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-1482 • E-ISSN: 2152-050X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10511482.2022.2055612 |
| OpenAlex | W4229452840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 21 |
In the months after Hurricane María’s devastation of Puerto Rico, press outlets and advocacy groups documented how Puerto Rico’s experience with housing repair and reconstruction programs was rife with complaints and inconsistencies regarding approval of applications and denial of support, especially among vulnerable communities. These problems are not unique to Puerto Rico and have been frequently raised by numerous communities in the United States that have endured disasters. This article contributes to the critical task of revealing postdisaster damages and reconstruction trends through a detailed examination of housing and personal property damages and benefits received through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Individual Assistance (IA) Program after Hurricane María. It also shows which municipalities were most affected and have the greatest housing needs. We demonstrate that, in the aggregate, poor or geographically vulnerable households were not likely to be underserved. Nonetheless, poor households are left with a greater burden in the form of pending housing needs after aid relief has been allocated, rendering them more vulnerable to being displaced. Furthermore, households that lacked clear tenure status were unable to access IA aid because of administrative and procedural burdens
Business · Damages · Denial · Economic growth · Economics · Emergency management · Political science · Public housing · Sociology · Subsidized housing · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology
Navigating property formalization in post-disaster recovery
Understanding the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Challenges
Long-term impacts of hurricanes on mortality among Medicare beneficiaries
Barriers to equitable disaster recovery
The rise of hazard gentrification
The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Recovery of Public Housing Residents Following Compounding Disasters
The evolution of race and place in geographies of risk and resilience
Concurrent disasters
Poverty and Disasters in the United States
Facts about Fema Household Disaster Aid
Deemed Ineligible
Recovering From Catastrophes
Good Government in the Tropics
The Political Economy of Fema Disaster Payments
Street‐level Bureaucracy’ Revisited
Social context and depression after a disaster
Hurricane Andrew
Professionals, Managers and Discretion
Decision-Making Tools and Their Influence on Caseworkers' Room for Discretion
Residential Assistance and Recovery Following the Northridge Earthquake
Shelter, Housing and Recovery
Political Disaster
Rule Following and Discretion at Government's Frontlines
| Citations per year | 2.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |