Post-Disaster Housing and Reconstruction

Abstract

Post-disaster housing and reconstruction is a complex process that goes well beyond the provision of temporary shelters or permanent houses. Important challenges often include solving complex procedures for land management, developing adaptable financing mechanisms, accessing sustainable sources of income for affected families, and planning building (or rebuilding) infrastructure in a way that it can respond to both short-term and long-term needs. Even though post-disaster housing and reconstruction tends to be considered a technical problem (a problem of building cheaply and quickly), the reality is that post-disaster housing and reconstruction poses a particularly challenging problem of organising and managing project actors and stakeholders.