Triangulating Earth Observation, Legal and Sociodemographic Data, and Quantitative Interviews to Investigate Disparities in Disaster Recovery

Recovery from natural disasters reveals and exacerbates socioeconomic inequities in housing. Uneven patterns of recovery among households in the U.S. pose an urgent need to guide more equitable policies, programs, and risk transfer tools, including insurance. Doctoral student in geography Hannah Friedrich will document disparities in housing recovery outcomes and causes of differential recovery in Calcasieu Parish in southwest Louisiana. She will conduct interviews and analyze Calcasieu Parish Policy Jury data, Louisiana Tax Commission data, satellite imagery, court records, and American Community Survey data for her study.