How Construction and Socioeconomic Resource Availability Affected Housing Recovery after Hurricane Sandy
Abstract
The US utilizes a market-driven resourcing approach for post-disaster residential housing reconstruction, where homeowners must quickly secure financial capital to compete for limited construction resources. However, homeowners’ financial capital resource availability is driven by household socioeconomic status. Construction resource availability is constrained by the available supply of labor and material within the local construction industry market. Since resource availability varies geographically under a market-driven model, this study investigates the spatially varying influence of pre-disaster construction and socioeconomic resource availability on post-disaster residential housing recovery. County-level data was collected and analyzed for US states with federal major disaster declarations following Hurricane Sandy, namely Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) model results show how the uneven geographic distribution of pre-disaster construction and socioeconomic resources creates regional disparities in post-disaster housing recovery outcomes.
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Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Specifically, data outputs and results from the OLS and GWR models developed for this study are available. Data used to develop the OLS and GWR models were collected from publicly available sources including: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA 2022); the New York State Department of Labor (New York State Department of Labor 2022); the US BLS (2022); the US Census Bureau (US Census Bureau 2010, 2022a, b, c, d); and Zillow (Zillow 2022).
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Volume 24 • Issue 3 • August 2023
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Received: Jul 19, 2022
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Published online: Apr 25, 2023
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