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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead

By Shannon Van Zandt for The Conversation, The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people displaced or homeless. For many of them, it will be months if not years before their homes are rebuilt. That’s especially hard on low-income residents. As a professor of urban planning, I study the

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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead

By Shannon Van Zandt for The Conversation, The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people displaced or homeless. For many of them, it will be months if not years before their homes are rebuilt. That’s especially hard on low-income residents. As a professor of urban planning, I study the

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Natural disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead

Lower-income households are not only more likely to suffer damage in a natural disaster, but they are more likely to take much longer to recover.

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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead – that loss hurts the economy

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