RAPID: Affordable Housing and Equitable Recovery: A Study of the 2013 Colorado Flash Floods

【摘要】该RAPID基金用于收集2013年9月科罗拉多州山洪暴发后住房恢复的数据。研究结果将为更好的地方、州和联邦灾害管理政策和旨在社区恢复的项目提供信息。这场洪水是科罗拉多州历史上损失最惨重的灾难，摧毁了1500多所房屋，造成了超过20亿美元的经济损失。低价位和中等价位的住房受到的打击尤其严重，数百套经济适用房被摧毁。社区正在努力决定何时、何地以及是否重建住房，而流离失所的居民由于失去了负担得起的住房选择而无法返回家园。调查人员将在灾难的关键时刻收集家庭和社区决策的详细数据，以便更好地了解那些失去了大部分经济适用房的社区所面临的问题和挑战。经济适用住房的命运是长期灾后恢复的核心特征，然而，现有的研究对影响灾后重建或更换经济适用住房决定的所有变量都不清楚。为了确定这些变量并了解它们如何影响恢复工作，研究小组将收集、分析和传播受2013年山洪影响的科罗拉多州三个社区的住房恢复数据。项目团队将分两波收集数据。“第一波”将是对灾前100-120户经济适用房家庭的基线调查。基于他们对基线调查结果的分析，该团队将招募受访者的子样本参加研究“第二波”的深度访谈。这些访谈将有助于更深入地了解流离失所的过程，以及家庭损失如何使日常生活复杂化和中断，并最终影响长期恢复。为了补充家庭调查和访谈，该小组将采访来自地方、州和联邦政府以及民间社会的关键举报人。这项研究将为个人和社区规模的灾难恢复决策的动态性质提供急需的见解，并将推进我们对长期灾难恢复的科学理解。

AbstractThis RAPID grant funds the collection of data on housing recovery following the September 2013 flash floods in Colorado. The research results will inform better local, state, and federal disaster management policies and programs aimed at community recovery. The floods were the costliest disaster in Colorado state history, destroying more than 1,500 homes and triggering over $2 billion in economic loss. Low and moderately priced housing was particularly hard-hit, with hundreds of affordable units destroyed. Communities are struggling with decisions about where, when, and if to rebuild housing, while displaced residents are unable to return home because of the loss of affordable housing options. The investigators will collect detailed data on household and community decision-making at this crucial time of the disaster, in order to better understand the issues and challenges facing communities who have lost significant portions of their affordable housing stock. The fate of affordable housing is central to the character of long-term disaster recovery, however, existing research is unclear on the full range of variables that influence decisions about the reconstruction or replacement of affordable housing post-disaster. To identify these variables and understand how they affect recovery efforts, the research team will collect, analyze and disseminate data on housing recovery in three Colorado communities impacted by the 2013 flash floods. The project team will collect data in two distinct waves. Wave "I" will be a baseline survey of 100-120 households living in affordable housing prior to the disaster. Based on their analysis of the results of this baseline survey, the team will then recruit a sub-sample of respondents to take part in an in-depth interview for Wave "II" of the study. These interviews will allow for a richer understanding of the processes of displacement and how household losses complicate and disrupt daily living and, eventually, longer term recovery. To supplement the household survey and interviews, the team will interview key informants from local, state, and federal government and civil society. The study will provide much-needed insights into the dynamic nature of disaster recovery decision making at the individual and community scale, and will advance our scientific understanding of long-term disaster recovery.