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Rebuilding housing along the Mississippi Coast : ideas for ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing / Mark A. Bernstein ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-162.
- Occasional paper ; OP-162-RC
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Low-income housing--Government policy--Mississippi--Delta (Region).
- Low-income housing.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (92 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Ideas for ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Identifies policy and implementation options that could help Mississippi communities address affordable-housing issues, considering challenges in providing such housing and strategies for dealing with those challenges.
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath; Governor's Commission for Recovery, Reconstruction, Renewal; RAND's Role; RAND's Approach; Report Outline; CHAPTER TWO- Affordable Housing and Lessons Learned from Other Natural Disasters; What Is Affordable Housing?; Lessons About Affordable Housing from Other Natural Disasters; CHAPTER THREE- Affordable Housing in Coastal Mississippi Before and After Katrina; Overview of Indicators, Data, Measures, and Models
- Pre-Katrina Household and Housing CharacteristicsEstimate of Surge and Flood Damage Exposures of Households; Estimates of Damage Levels for Biloxi; Conclusions; CHAPTER FOUR- Options for Enhancing the Supply and Quality of Affordable Housing; Options to Inform and Oversee Long-Term Policy Solutions; Options to Increase the Supply and Affordability of Housing in the NearTerm and Long Term; Options to Encourage Safe and Healthy Affordable Housing; Options to Increase Long-Term Affordability Through Lower Life-Cycle Costs; Options to Promote Local Involvement
- CHAPTER FIVE- Summary and ConclusionsAPPENDIX- Details of the GIS Analysis; References
- Notes:
- "RAND Gulf States Policy Institute."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-71).
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-4111-8
- OCLC:
- 815822153
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