Cost-Effective Housing Systems for Disaster Relief (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288934409)

This Task Report presents the approach and results of the costeffectiveness analysis of 13 temporary housing systems preselected in Task I-B-2 (Volume 4 ) .

The preceding analysis in Task I identified potentially applicable technology by surveying the entire range of currently available housing systems and screening out those products that did not meet a set of first-level criteria . Systems passing the test of this broad and mainly qualitative analysis were pre-selected for quantitative analysis in this Task.

The "cost per family assisted" for a given housing system was determined to be the best measure for comparing cost-effectiveness. It is defined as the cumulative average cost incurred by the government over the average useful life of a given housing unit divided by the cumulative number of families who used that unit.

Author: U. S. Dept of Housing and Urban Developm
ISBN-10: 1288934408
ISBN-13: 9781288934409
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2013
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.15d