TY - JOUR
T1 - Disasters, Displacement, and Housing Instability
T2 - Estimating Time to Stable Housing 13 Years after Hurricane Katrina
AU - Merdjanoff, Alexis A.
AU - Abramson, David M.
AU - Park, Yoon Soon
AU - Piltch-Loeb, Rachael
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. The authors thank G-CAFH respondents for their continued participation, as well as the field staff and coordinators who worked tirelessly to complete data collection. G-CAFH waves 1–4 were funded by the Children’s Health Fund. G-CAFH wave 5 was funded by the National Institutes of Health as part of the Katrina@10 Program (P01HD082032; NICHD).
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PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Catastrophic disasters disrupt the structural and social aspects of housing, which can lead to varying lengths of displacement and housing instability for affected residents. Stable housing is a critical aspect of postdisaster recovery, which makes it important to understand how much time passes before displaced residents are able to find stable housing. Using the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study, a longitudinal cohort of Mississippi and Louisiana residents exposed to Hurricane Katrina (n = 1079), we describe patterns of stable housing by identifying protective and prohibitive factors that affect time to stable housing in the 13 years following the storm. Survival analyses reveal that median time to stable housing was 1082 days-over 3 years after Katrina. Age, housing tenure, marital status, income, and social support each independently affected time to stable housing. Findings suggest that postdisaster housing instability is similar to other forms of housing instability, including eviction, frequent moves, and homelessness.
AB - Catastrophic disasters disrupt the structural and social aspects of housing, which can lead to varying lengths of displacement and housing instability for affected residents. Stable housing is a critical aspect of postdisaster recovery, which makes it important to understand how much time passes before displaced residents are able to find stable housing. Using the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study, a longitudinal cohort of Mississippi and Louisiana residents exposed to Hurricane Katrina (n = 1079), we describe patterns of stable housing by identifying protective and prohibitive factors that affect time to stable housing in the 13 years following the storm. Survival analyses reveal that median time to stable housing was 1082 days-over 3 years after Katrina. Age, housing tenure, marital status, income, and social support each independently affected time to stable housing. Findings suggest that postdisaster housing instability is similar to other forms of housing instability, including eviction, frequent moves, and homelessness.
KW - North America
KW - Social Science
KW - Statistics
KW - Vulnerability
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U2 - 10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0057.1
DO - 10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0057.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129727232
SN - 1948-8327
VL - 14
SP - 535
EP - 550
JO - Weather, Climate, and Society
JF - Weather, Climate, and Society
IS - 2
ER -