Shelter / Housing

This report provides analysis to help the U.S. Virgin Islands accelerate its recovery from 2017’s Hurricanes Irma and Maria by identifying recovery goals, recovery accomplishments, and challenges. The authors focused on crosscutting capacities needed for

This paper provides essential information on construction methods and details that will help ensure resilience against future hurricanes and storm surges.

This report summarizes a comprehensive assessment of the commonwealth’s challenges and the damage caused by the 2017 hurricanes to support development of Puerto Rico’s short- and long-term recovery and resilience plan,

This study explored factors that contributed to the successful implementation of tsunami housing projects in Kerala, India.

This report reflects on CARE country offices' shelter work in response and recovery from Cyclone Idai and lessons learnt.

This report presents the first comprehensive figures and analysis of the patterns of displacement associated with the 2019 - 2020 bushfire season.

The report explores how shelter support for housing reconstruction, including through self-recovery, can contribute to physical and mental wellbeing in the short- and long-term for people recovering from disasters. The report aims to share knowledge about the connections between housing and mental and physical health and contains recommendations to inform humanitarian shelter responses and ensure wide co-benefits of post-crisis rebuilding, especially in self-recovery contexts.

This study examines people’s experiences in post-disaster resettlement in the Philippines, focusing on the 1991 eruption and subsequent lahars of Mt. Pinatubo, the 2006 Mt. Mayon eruption, Typhoon Sendong in 2011 and Typhoon Yolanda in 2013.

This study focuses on the April/May 2015 Nepal earthquakes to understand rural natural disaster recovery. Household surveys were conducted on critical earthquake impacts and recovery trajectories with 400 ran-domly selected households in four clusters of settlements in two districts with catastrophic impacts to all houses and infrastructure. The analysis explores relationships among critical recovery indicators, households, and clusters of settlements.

This report provides a structured account of the sectoral, economic, and social impact of the earthquakes which struck Croatia between December 2020 and January 2021. It highlights key findings and provides recommendations for recovery and reconstruction.