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Combining the American Housing Survey and the American Community Survey to Produce Information Useful in Public Emergency Situations: An Exploratory Analysis
From the executive summary: "This research project explores the possibility of using small area statistical techniques to generate for areas not covered by the American Housing Survey (AHS) information that would be useful in preparing for or responding to a disaster and that is available only in the AHS. The study experienced difficulty in identifying variables that would be of obvious help in disasters situations. [...] The results are only mildly encouraging."
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research
Eggers, Frederick J.
2009-12
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Destruction of Housing Capital: A Preliminary Exploration into Demolitions and Disasters
"According to the American Housing Survey (AHS), more than ten million units constructed prior to 1920 still survive in the United States. [...] Between 1999 and 2001, 1.5 million housing units disappeared permanently. Fires and natural disasters account for some of these losses but owners voluntarily demolished many other units. We know little about this phenomenon - for example, how much capital is lost annually, which units are most susceptible to being loss, and what motivates owners to destroy housing capital? A better understanding of these issues could give us useful insights into important social questions. The price and tenure status of the units being lost affects the availability of affordability housing. The costs of regional economic dislocation include the impacts of declining population on the housing stock. Neighborhood transformations involve both people changes and structural changes. For these reasons, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) commissioned this exploratory study of housing loss. This paper has two modest goals. First, we will examine how to use the AHS to study these questions. The AHS has features that make it well suited to an analysis of housing loss, particularly its large sample size, extensive information on the physical characteristics of the units, good neighborhood data, and the ability to track the same unit over time. However, researchers must first deal with a number of conceptual and data problems. Second, we will use the AHS to analyze, in a preliminary fashion, what units are destroyed and why."
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research
Watson, Gregory J.; Eggers, Frederick J.
2003-11-30
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