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1. With $200 Million in U.S. Housing Aid, Officials Begin Relocating the Displaced (NY Times, Nov 5 2012)
   Article highlighting the short-term and long-term housing challenges in the Hurricane Sandy response and recovery.
   06-11-2012 to housing, hurricane, ny, reconstruction, relocation, sandy, shelter, us
2. Simplified Flood Risk Assessment Tool (GRIP, Sep 2009)
   Tool to analyze future post-disaster shelter recovery needs in relation to flood risk as well as to manage information about on-going risks after a disaster and their implications for shelter planning.
   17-07-2012 to analysis, assessment, flood, gis, housing, mapping, planning, scenarios, shelter
3. What is the vision for Sheltering and Housing in Haiti? (Nov 2011)
   Summary observations by Ian Davis of reconstruction progress following the Haiti Earthquake of January 12 2010.
   11-06-2012 to earthquake, evaluation, haiti, housing, reconstruction, recovery, shelter
4. Map of Haiti earthquake (NY Times, Jan 2010)
   Topographic map showing areas of settlement in and around Port-au-Prince as well as maps of buildng damage, temporary shetler sites, and road blockages.
   19-01-2010 to damage, earthquake, haiti, map, shelter, transportation
5. Delivery of Humanitarian Shelter in Urban Areas: The Case of Kass (CARE/USAID, Nov. 2007)
   Review of the Kabul Area Shelter and Settlement (KASS) Project. "By providing shelters in an urban environment, existing resources were able to be consolidated and improved, people were able to live in areas close to employment and family, and not relegated to satellite suburbs or cities where they could feel displaced and separate from the community".
   16-01-2010 to afghanistan, care, housing, kabul, livelihoods, reconstruction, recovery, settlement, shelter, urban, usaid
6. Shelter Projects 2008 (IASC Emergency Shelter Cluster)
   Collection of cases from post-disaster shelter projects from recent years, including a selection from the last 40 years taken from the CUNY archives. (Warning: MASSIVELY LARGE FILE)
   16-10-2009 to cuny, drr, housing, india, indonesia, peru, post-disaster, reconstruction, shelter, sri lanka, un habitat
7. The Meaning of 'Build Back Better': Evidence From Post-Tsunami Aceh and Sri Lanka (Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Jan 2008)
   Focusing on settlement and shelter, this paper examines 4 areas: (i) safety, security, and livelihoods; (ii) how post-disaster settlement and shelter could have an improved connection with permanent housing and communities; (iii) fairness and equity; and (iv) connecting relief and development by tackling root causes of vulnerability.
   20-10-2008 to aceh, asia, housing, reconstruction, settlement, shelter, sri lanka, transition, tsunami, vulnerability
8. The Community Led Infrastructure Finance Facility (CLIFF) (May 2005)
   An article by Homeless International about the CLIFF which provides venture capital and other financial products directly to organisations of the urban poor, to support community-led slum upgrading schemes conceived in partnership with city authorities.
   04-10-2008 to community, finance, fund, grant, housing, poverty, shelter, slum, upgrading, urban
9. Impacts of prefabricated temporary housing after disasters: 1999 earthquakes in Turkey (Oct. 2007, Habitat International)
   'The purpose of this research is to recognize exactly what problems exist with temporary housing in the long term (after 5 years) and to identify, using a systems approach, the origin of these problems within the project process for temporary housing.'
   24-10-2007 to earthquake, evaluation, housing, impact, logframe, prefabricated, reconstruction, shelter, temporary housing, turkey
10. Disaster Relief Information (Novogradac & Company LLP)
    Information on post-Katrina disaster housing assistance in relation to affordable housing tax credit programs around the U.S.
    02-05-2006 to credit, disaster, housing, hurricane, katrina, northamerica, shelter, tax, us

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