Report for the Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, Renewal - Affordable Housing Subcommittee on affordable-housing policy and implementation options that have potential application for long-term reconstruction decisions in the wake of natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina.
CEA is a city-sponsored non-profit organization program to significantly reduce energy and water use in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The scheme is planned to have no up-front costs and project financing will be repaid by participants from the energy savings realized through effeciency upgrades.
Information on post-Katrina disaster housing assistance in relation to affordable housing tax credit programs around the U.S.
Article on the risks posed for those living trailers as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.
Analysis of "the status and use of the storm recovery housing options currently made available by the Bush administration, along with the known costs associated with each type of housing aid."
Article about interim housing solutions for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Research initiative bringing together applied research from a variety of disciplines, including economics, planning, finance, architecture, and engineering in researching housing affordability problems exist in the Boston metropolitan area.
"... in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some architects and urban planners are contemplating the larger question of what form the city should take - whether restored, reimagined or something in between."
Suggestion for using Christopher Alexander's concept of a "Pattern Language" in a wiki-like way to encourage participatory revision of rebuilding plans toward a consensus view or vision.
Posting by Witold Rybczynski looking at lessons from past attempts to provide emergency shelter and housing to victims of disasters.
