Evacuation and Arrival in Austin

Angel, Ronald J.; Bell, Holly; Beausoleil, Julie; Lein, Laura

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511843792.005

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“…The city had a higher proportion of women than men (Seager, 2006) and one quarter of the women were impoverished (Jones-DeWeever & Hartmann, 2006). The majority of survivors who relocated to Austin, and in our study sample, were poor, Black, single women with children (Angel et al, 2006; Texas Health and Human Services Commission, 2006).…”

Section: Social Support and Gendermentioning

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Stress and Support in Family Relationships After Hurricane Katrina

Reid

Reczek

2011

Journal of Family Issues

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In this article, the authors merge the study of support, strain, and ambivalence in family relationships with the study of stress to explore the ways family members provide support or contribute to strain in the disaster recovery process. The authors analyze interviews with 71 displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors, and identify three family relationships that were especially important to postdisplacement experiences: marital or intimate partner, parent-adult child, and fictive kin. These relationships provided support, contributed to strain, or did both, highlighting the complexity of such relationships in the postdisaster context. Women tended to provide more support to and receive more support from family relationships than did men, especially through mother-adult daughter relationships.

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Section: Social Support and Gendermentioning

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Stress and Support in Family Relationships After Hurricane Katrina

Reid

Reczek

2011

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Because of the high cost and low vacancy rate of centrally located rental housing in Austin, survivors more often found housing on the outskirts of the city, far from public transportation, jobs, and services critical for recovery (Angel et al 2006). Survivors understood that when their FEMA benefits expired, they would not be able to afford the rent for their apartment.…”

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Looking for Home after Katrina

Mueller

Bell

Chang

et al. 2011

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, more than a million Gulf Coast residents were forced to flee, nearly 250,000 to Texas. New Orleans lost more than half its population. Four years later, many low-income residents had yet to return. Through qualitative research with low-income survivors relocated to Austin, Texas, and the caseworkers and service providers who worked with them, this article describes the experiences of low-income households. Disaster housing policies were a particularly poor fit for the needs of low-income survivors and, combined with a preexisting shortage of affordable housing in Austin, impeded their recovery.

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Evacuation and Arrival in Austin

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Stress and Support in Family Relationships After Hurricane Katrina

Stress and Support in Family Relationships After Hurricane Katrina

Looking for Home after Katrina

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