Shelter / Housing

This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China.

This paper assesses post-disaster shelter recovery policy frameworks in the Philippines by building a responsive system to support resilient and equitable recovery. Every year, shelter in the Philippines is being lost to climate-related events.

This report is part of the World Bank’s response to the Government’s request for support in assessing damages as well as longer-term implications for disaster risk management. Cyclone Seroja impacted Timor-Leste on April 4, 2021.

This examines the recovery progress in a village in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake, utilizing data from two household surveys to assess community resilience, satisfaction with government support, and the socio-economic impacts of the disaster.

This report presents the findings of a Local Emergency Operation Centre (LEOC) Assessment conducted by the Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform in an earthquake-affected district.

California must comprehensively reshape how we rebuild after wildfires—or risk an unthinkable surge in costs and major setbacks to the state’s housing supply amidst a record housing crisis. That’s the finding of Rebuilding for a Resilient Recovery: Planning in California's Wildland Urban Interface, released today from researchers at the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation and non-partisan, non-profit think tank Next 10.

This study presents the findings of the survey to understand the status of the Building Code Implementation and to assess awareness level regarding the National Building Code at the districts affected by 2015 Gorkha earthquake.

This is a brief of the territorial dimension of displacement in northern Mozambique developed in support of planning, management, and implementation of actions to address recovery needs and urban durable solutions.

This study has contributed to the identification and analysis of urban recovery issues with the hope that its findings will further guide conceptual discussions and identified key issues to be hindering urban recovery.

Using Salt Lake County, UT, as a case study, this research examines pre-disaster policies focused on providing post-disaster housing for public housing residents.