Shelter / Housing

This document presents a timeline of key achievements and activities so far in the housing recovery, as well as including a pre-earthquake section in an attempt to highlight the decades of work on earthquake preparedness and response in Nepal.

This paper systematically reviews 94 articles from 2003 to 2019 on post-disaster housing reconstruction. It highlights the success factors for effective PDHR, offering guidance for practitioners.

This document aims to capture the impact and vulnerabilities of different groups and sectors, including agriculture and fisheries, tourism, housing and settlements, low-income and informal workers, women, and youth to natural hazards in Tonga.

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.