Disaster Resilience and Recovery

People With Disabilities Are Pushing for More Inclusive Rescue and Recovery Programs In Harvey's Wake

Much of the attention around the storm’s anniversary will focus on megaprojects, but, efforts to create equitable human recovery, especially for the most vulnerable, cannot be lost in the shuffle.

Lessons from Harvey: Crisis Informatics for Urban Resilience

This report suggests that public agencies work closely with social media companies and the operators of crowdsourced sites to install plans to incorporate these systems into the disaster recovery process.

What Twitter Can Teach Us About Hurricane Harvey

Platforms like Twitter can capture immediate, on-the-ground needs in an unfolding disaster and can help fill gaps in response.

Buyouts Bring Promise and Challenges to Flood-Affected Homeowners

For some, buyouts are a lifeline, but for others, they represent a loss of community and limited options to move on.

One Year Later: What We've Learned Since Harvey

From assessing need to evaluating mitigation techniques, a number of good studies have advanced the region's flooding and resiliency knowledge but more is needed.

Flood Control Bond Has Support, Skepticism As Early Voting Begins

Early voting began Wednesday, with election day on Aug. 25, the anniversary of Hurricane Harvey's landfall.

This Is What Resiliency Planning Looks Like

OffCite | The Resilient by Design challenge offers lessons for resiliency planning that can address environmental crises as well as challenges in socioeconomic and racial inequity.

Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Funding in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey

This research brief provides context about how the recovery process is unfolding in the Hurricane Harvey-affected region and how the area can prevent a similar situation from happening again.

Q+A: Why The Harvey Health and Housing Registry Needs You

An innovative study tracking the effects of Hurricane Harvey looks for input from Houston-area residents, whether they were directly affected by the storm or not.

Is Houston Ready to Embrace the Changes Needed to Prevent Future Flooding?

A variety of Harvey-related questions from this year’s survey indicate that Houstonians are surprisingly open to government interventions that are explicitly designed to increase flood resilience.

Building a More Resilient Housing System Event Report

This report by the Houston office of Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research highlights key learnings and strategies from the “Building a More Resilient Housing System” event held on March 27, 2018.

Four Steps To Make Houston Housing More Resilient

With funding flowing to the region for recovery, how can Houston create a more resilient city amid a housing shortage?

Why Resiliency Is About Reframing Relationships

Experts share insights into planning and paying for resilience.

Schools Still Feeling the Effects of Harvey

Missed school days, damaged schools and panic every time it rains were just some of the challenges educators faced after the storm.

Harris County Receives Initial Harvey Buyout Funds

But it's not enough to cover the properties identified by the flood control district or those who submitted applications after Hurricane Harvey.