Tenure Insecurity and Post-Disaster Housing: Case Studies in New Orleans and Tegucigalpa

This research focuses upon cases wherein post]disaster housing assistance was affected by tenure insecurity. In the case of post]Katrina New Orleans, the Road Home, which provided monies for rebuilding, faced difficulties in allocating its aid because of heirship titles, a form of tenure insecurity to which the United States has often been misconceived as immune. In the case of post]Hurricane Mitch in Tegucigalpa, a post]disaster housing relocation program struggled to find lands in an urban land market with pervasive insecurity

Name thesis:degree_name

M.U.R.P.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Planning and Urban Studies

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Peterson, Robert Charles

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nelson, Marla
• Gladstone, David
• Villavaso, Stephen

• Hurricane Katrina
• Hurricane Mitch
• Tenure Insecurity
• Post-Disaster Housing
• Disaster Recovery
• Road Home
• Succession
• Heir Title
• Relocation
• Anticommons

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/954

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1935