SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B Convergence, Inventory, Matching, and Assignment (CIMA) to Optimize Post-event Housing Repair for Displaced Vulnerable Populations

美国各地的许多社区都在努力适应日益频繁和严重的天气事件。飓风和其他天气事件有可能对房屋造成广泛的结构性破坏，导致人口流离失所。由于风暴造成的破坏而流离失所的家庭遭受了巨大的痛苦。从最初离开家园到再次返回稳定、实用的住房之间的时间长短因人口而异，低收入至中等收入家庭和医疗脆弱家庭往往比非脆弱家庭流离失所时间长。事件发生后，来自许多来源的志愿者劳动力和捐赠物资流入受影响地区。然而，供应（捐赠的物资和志愿劳动力）与维修需求的匹配，特别是在弱势家庭中，并非最佳。该项目旨在通过开发名为CIMA的“融合、库存、匹配和分配”平台，使供应与需求更优化地匹配，从而有意义地减少中低收入家庭中常见的漫长流离失所时间，从而解决恢复和福祉方面的根本不平等问题。CIMA将填补非营利恢复组织管理到达的材料和劳动力的能力方面的已知空白，确定可能遭受最大流离失所时间的家庭，并优化为这些最脆弱家庭安排的修复工作。这项规划赠款通过以评估CIMA管理平台概念为重点的结构化社区参与活动，支持能力建设目标。具体活动包括：1）通过社区参与评估CIMA平台的潜在效用，2）从利益相关者那里获得见解，并评估CIMA概念的优势和劣势，以及3）根据利益相关者的建议，完善CIMA的规范要求。这些目标将通过远景规划活动实现，每个活动针对不同的利益相关者群体：1）社区/非营利利益相关者，2）政府利益相关者，3）基金会利益相关者。每个活动由四个协作互动组成：1）讨论模拟风暴引发的洪水，估计损失流离失所人口，2）参与者展望当前条件下标准化流离失所家庭的住房恢复动态，3）讨论CIMA概念和功能，实用性和适用性，以及4）参与者展望部署CIMA平台的非营利区域恢复组织干预下的住房恢复动态。该项目是响应公民创新挑战计划，轨道B-恢复自然灾害，是NSF和国土安全部之间的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Many communities across the United States have struggled to adapt to the increasing frequency and severity of weather events. Hurricanes and other weather events, have the potential to inflict wide-spread structural damage to homes, resulting in the displacement of populations. Households displaced due to storm-induced damage suffer enormously. The length of time between initial displacement from the home and returning, once again, to stable, functional housing varies greatly across populations with low-to-modest income households and medically fragile households tending to have lengthy displacements relative to non-vulnerable households. Following an event, volunteer labor and donated materials from many sources flow into the impacted region. However, the matching of supply (donated materials and volunteer labor) with the need for repair, particularly among vulnerable households, is less than optimal. This project aims to more-optimally match supply with need—through development of “Convergence, Inventory, Matching, and Assignment” platform called CIMA—so that lengthy displacement times common among low-to-modest income households will be meaningfully reduced, thus addressing fundamental inequities in recovery and wellbeing.CIMA will fill a known gap in the ability of nonprofit recovery organizations to manage arriving materials and labor, identify households likely to suffer the greatest displacement times, and optimize the scheduling of repairs for these households that are most vulnerable. This Planning Grant supports capacity-building objectives through structured community engagement activities focused on the assessment of the CIMA management platform concept. Specific activity include: 1) assessing, though community engagement, the potential utility of the CIMA platform, 2) eliciting insights from stakeholders and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the CIMA concept, and 3) refining, with stakeholder recommendations, the specification requirements for CIMA. These objectives will be achieved through Visioning Events, each targeting a different stakeholder constituency: 1) Community/Nonprofit Stakeholders, 2) Government Stakeholders, and 3) Foundation Stakeholders. Each event consists of four collaborative interactions: 1) discussion of modeled storm-induced flooding with estimates for damage & displaced populations, 2) participants visioning the housing recuperation dynamics for Standardized Displaced Households under current conditions, 3) discussion of CIMA concept and functions, utility and applicability, and 4) participants visioning the housing recuperation dynamics under the intervention of nonprofit regional recovery organizations deploying the CIMA platform. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program, Track B—Resilience to Natural Disasters—and is a collaboration between NSF and the Department of Homeland Security.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.