Housing Recovery

The Housing RSF coordinates and facilitates the delivery of Federal resources to implement housing solutions that effectively support the needs of the whole community and contribute to its sustainability and resilience. Housing is a critical and often challenging component of disaster recovery, but must be adequate, affordable, and accessible to make a difference for the whole community.

The core recovery capability for housing is the ability to implement housing solutions that effectively support the needs of the whole community and contribute to its sustainability and resilience. Like infrastructure and safety services, housing is a critical and often challenging component of disaster recovery. It is critical because local economies cannot recover from devastating disasters without adequate housing, especially affordable housing.

This Recovery Support function:

• Identifies strategies and options that address a broad range of disaster housing issues such as those dealing with planning, zoning, design, production, logistics, codes, and financing.
• Builds accessibility, resilience, sustainability, and mitigation measures into identified housing recovery strategies.

Residential Housing

Assessment and repair of peoples’ homes, to expedite the return of people to normal life functioning is a critical priority.