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

SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B 融合、库存、匹配和分配 (CIMA)，以优化流离失所的弱势群体的事后住房修复

• 批准号: 2043697
• 负责人: Joshua Behr
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2043697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Convergence

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.

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大范围的结构破坏，导致人口流离失所。因风暴造成的破坏而流离失所的家庭遭受了巨大损失。从最初流离失所到再次返回稳定的功能性住房之间的时间长短，在低收入至中等收入家庭和医疗脆弱家庭的人口中差别很大，相对于非脆弱家庭，流离失所的时间往往较长。事件发生后，来自各方的志愿者和捐赠物资源源不断地进入受灾地区。然而，供应（捐赠材料和志愿劳动）与维修需求的匹配，特别是在脆弱家庭中，并不是最理想的。该项目旨在通过开发名为cima的“趋同、库存、匹配和分配”平台，更优化地匹配供给与需求，从而显著减少中低收入家庭常见的长期流离失所时间，从而解决恢复和福祉方面的根本不平等问题。CIMA将填补非营利性恢复组织管理到达的材料和劳动力的能力空白，确定可能遭受最大迁移时间的家庭，并优化这些最脆弱家庭的维修计划。该规划赠款通过结构化的社区参与活动支持能力建设目标，重点是评估CIMA管理平台概念。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概念的优缺点；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活动来实现，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。每个事件由四个协作交互组成：1)讨论风暴引发的洪水模型，并对损失和流离失所人口进行估计；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、效用和适用性；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。这个项目是对公民创新挑战项目——Track B-Resilience to Natural disaster的回应，是NSF和国土安全部之间的合作项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。