Abstract
Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery, by Mary C. Comerio (1999) Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed by Susanna M. Hoffman
Highlights
Do we not instead create a new population of those permanently “in the hole?” Comerio points out the majority of those in need of housing assistance are renters in multi-occupancy dwellings and poor
For instance, that everyone damaged by the Oakland Firestorm was privately insured and none needed government housing aid
I know of a number of victims of that disaster, often elderly, some cash-poor, others misguided, who, owning their houses free of mortgage, believed they needed no insurance and were left quite demolished
Summary
Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery, by Mary C. Comerio asks, will pay to repair the damage and replace the losses, so much of it housing, in future disasters? Rather, housing damage must, in a sense, be “deconstructed.” Factors such as single or multifamily units, habitability, social and economic situation of the victims, and concentration of loss affect the toll.
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