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El Portal Mobile Home Park Closing
Research by LSSR
investigators and others has revealed a range of variables - regulatory,
political, socio-economic - that suggests continuing reductions
in the number of mobile home parks in urban areas. As they are
converted to other uses, some mobile home park operations will
move to other locations, probably in less urban areas and in locations
less desirable to developers or re-developers. Other mobile home
parks that cease operations in their current urban locations will
not resume business elsewhere. In both cases but particularly the
latter, the lives of residents are affected and the changes can
be extremely stressful, socially and economically. (for more...El
Portal Mobile Home Park Closing)
Workshop to Review, Update and Extend Prior Mitigation Incentives
Research and Planning Efforts
During 2003/2004 the LSSR assessed the feasibility of developing
and implementing a program of incentives for home-buyers who purchase
new homes that include one or more hurricane loss mitigation devices
or techniques. This research also looked at programs that provide
incentives for existing homeowners to retrofit their houses by
implementing cost-effective hurricane loss mitigation devices or
techniques. The LSSR also looked into potential sources and
methods of funding such programs of incentives. (for more...Workshop
to Review Mitigation Incentives)
RCMP Evaluation Project: Focused Survey of the Florida Coastal
Monitoring Program
Each year as part of the evaluation of the effectiveness of the
Hurricane Loss Reduction Program (RCMP), the IHRC team conducts
a focused evaluation survey of a specific RCMP contracted project
that is selected by DCA staff. For 2003-2004, the contract selected
for focused survey-based evaluation is the Florida Coastal Monitoring
Program (FCMP). The FCMP designs and deploys instruments and models
to understand how hurricane winds affect homes and other buildings
on the ground. (for more...Focused
Survey of the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program)
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