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  • Disaster management
  • Urban planning
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Short-term disaster recovery is crucial for community resilience.
  • Evacuation return and home-switch stability are key indicators of recovery progress.
  • Understanding population disparities in recovery is essential for equitable aid.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define evacuation return and home-switch stability as critical recovery milestones.
  • To analyze subpopulation disparities in the duration of these recovery milestones.
  • To inform disaster response strategies with data-driven insights.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized privacy-preserving, fine-resolution location-based data.
  • Examined evacuation and home move-out rates during Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas.
  • Analyzed disparities in return durations across different subpopulations.

Main Results:

  • Identified areas with varying durations for evacuation return and home-switch stability.
  • Shorter evacuation return in flooded areas may indicate barriers, not necessarily positive recovery.
  • Lower-income residents showed slower home return, linked to rental housing.

Conclusions:

  • Recovery patterns are skewed and non-uniform across all subpopulations.
  • Observed a consistent two-phase pattern in all return progress.
  • Findings support proactive, data-driven, and equitable disaster recovery resource allocation.