National Disaster Housing Strategy 

Charting a New Direction to Better Meet the Needs of Disaster Victims and Communities 

July 21, 2008 





Agenda 


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Overview of the Strategy 


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Disaster Housing: Current Practices and Future Directions 


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Implementing the Strategy 

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Review Process 


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Purpose 


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Describes how the Nation provides housing to those affected by disasters 

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Charts new direction to better meet the needs of disaster victims and communities 



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Key Concepts 


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Establishes a National vision and goals 


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Describes broad array of organizations that are involved 

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Provides overview of sheltering and housing efforts 

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Articulates key principles and current practices that guide disaster housing 







Overview 





Disaster Housing 

Responsibilities and Roles 

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Individuals and Households 

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Local Government 

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State and Tribal Government 

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Federal Government 

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Nongovernmental Organizations 

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Private Sector 






Disaster Housing 

Current Practices and Future Directions 

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Three Key Sections 

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Sheltering 

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Interim Housing 

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Permanent Housing 



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Overview 

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Key Principles 

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Roles and Responsibilities 

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Current Practices 

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Future Directions 










Disaster Housing 

Examples of Key Principles 
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Shelters are primarily conducted at the local level 

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Shelters can appear deceptively simple but are extraordinarily complex 


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Interim housing extends well beyond simply providing a structure 

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Interim housing must be safe, secure, and accessible 

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Rebuilding usually takes more time than people would like, and individuals need to prepare for this eventuality 

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Catastrophic incidents require extra coordination and resources to achieve permanent housing 






Disaster Housing 

Current Practices 

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Sheltering 

. 	Includes self-sheltering, emergency shelters, spontaneous shelters, nonconventional shelters, and shelter needs of institutions 

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Interim housing 

. 	Using available housing resources, traditional and innovative interim housing, and permanent construction 

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Permanent Housing 


. 	Approaches to meet the needs of renters, homeowners, landlords, the 

homeless, and the community 





Disaster Housing 

Examples of Future Directions 
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Develop innovative approaches to meet diverse needs of disaster victims 

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Reduce shelter demands by improving resilience and accelerating repairs 


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Move toward State-managed, federally supported interim housing programs 


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Provide broader range of interim housing options to meet diverse needs 

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Institute a nationwide case management approach to meet the needs disaster victims 

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Identify ways to rapidly move disaster victims from interim housing to permanent housing 

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Identify approaches to stimulate permanent housing recovery after a catastrophe 






Implementing the Strategy 
National Disaster Housing Task Force 
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Key Concepts 


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Focus full-time attention on disaster housing 

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Foster development of operational plans to support disaster housing 

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Build local, tribal, State, and Federal disaster housing baseline capabilities 

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Expand and improve national disaster housing resources 

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Work collectively to achieve the vision and goals within the Strategy 



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National Disaster Housing Task Force 

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Jointly led by FEMA, HUD, and the American Red Cross 

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Includes experts from all levels of government, the private sector, and NGOs 

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Advises the FEMA Administrator and the Secretaries of DHS and HUD 

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Fulfills a deliberative role normally and crisis action role during disasters 








Implementing the Strategy 
Short and Long Term Tasks 
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Short-term Tasks 


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Develop Implementation Plan (6 months) 

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Improve planning through a National Concept of Operations Plan (9 months) 

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Address the challenges of catastrophic events through Catastrophic Concept of Operations Plans 



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Long-term Tasks 


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Build capabilities across all levels of government, NGOs, & private sector 

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Expand national resources to support preparedness 





Review Process