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Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being

Ethan J. Raker, Tyler Woods
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2023, 9 (5) 122-143; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.06
Ethan J. Raker
aAssistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada
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vol. 9 no. 5 122-143
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.06

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2377-8253
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  • Published online August 3, 2023.

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© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Raker, Ethan J., and Tyler Woods. 2023. “Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(5): 122–43. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.06. For comments on previous drafts and support, we thank Meghan Zacher, Sarah Lowe, Mary Waters, Lilly Yu, Saul Ramirez, Marie Claire Meadows, and Kate Burrows, as well as the participants of the “Administrative Burdens as a Mechanisms of Inequality in Policy Implementation” conference at the Russell Sage Foundation and three anonymous reviewers. The RISK Study was generously funded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grants P01HD082032, R01HD057599, and R01HD046162, National Science Foundation grant BCS-0555240, MacArthur Foundation grant 04–80775–000-HCD, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant 23029, the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University, and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. The first author acknowledges support from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Direct correspondence to: Ethan J. Raker, ethan.raker@ubc.ca, 6303 NW Marine Drive #2318, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1, Canada. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Ethan J. Rakera and
  2. Tyler Woodsb
  1. aAssistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada
  2. bDoctoral candidate in sociology at Harvard University, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Ethan J. Raker, (ethan.raker{at}ubc.ca)
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    • Abstract
    • BACKGROUND
    • ACCESS TO FEMA POST-DISASTER ASSISTANCE
    • ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS IN DISASTER AID
    • OVERVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS IN FEMA’S IHP
    • OVERVIEW OF THE CASE: HURRICANE KATRINA
    • DATA AND METHODS
    • ADMINISTRATIVE FEMA DATA
    • RESILIENCE IN SURVIVORS OF KATRINA PROJECT
    • RESULTS
    • FREQUENCY AND DISTRIBUTION OF DENIALS, FEMA DATA
    • EXPERIENCES OF COMPLIANCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COSTS, THE RISK STUDY
    • INSUFFICIENT DAMAGE AND THE FEMA INSPECTION
    • DOCUMENTATION
    • PROCESSING TIME
    • INTEGRITY, ACCESS, AND DESERVINGNESS IN DISASTER ASSISTANCE
    • CONSEQUENCES OF DELAY AND DENIAL
    • DISASTER AID DENIAL AND WELL-BEING: SURVEY EVIDENCE FROM RISK
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