What can we learn from other countries’ relocation, reconstruction or housing buy-back programs?
How do these resilient housing programs unfold within their own physical, financial, social and emotional constraints, gather lessons learned and expand the body of knowledge around how such programs support post-disaster resilience?
Hazard Note 7: Resilient housing programs, a framework for evaluation, covers these questions and provides a framework for evaluating the key enablers and trade-offs involved in implementing government-sponsored resilience programs.
Co-funded by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority and Natural Hazards Research Australia, this Hazard Note covers the first part of a much broader project, Evaluating the resilient homes fund. The study examined the delivery of resilient housing programs in seven different local contexts around the world, gathering lessons learned and developing them into a set of considerations for future policy and practice.
This Hazard Note is authored by Prof Paula Jarzabkowski and Dr Katie Meissner at the University of Queensland, summarises this research and presents a new framework to improve homeowner resilience to disaster through relocation or buy-back, or reconstructing existing homes to be more disaster resilient.