Research Projects
Explore Our Key Research Areas
Our research focuses on climate resilience, equitable housing, and disaster recovery strategies.
Focus Area 1: Climate Risk Threatening Underserved Communities
We assess past and future climate threats impacting underserved communities.
- Model historic climate risk to analyze past vulnerabilities.
- Model future climate risk to predict upcoming challenges.
- Identify underserved future needs to guide policy and planning.
Focus Area 2: Capacity Building for Unmet Needs
We refine methods for estimating post-disaster housing recovery needs.
- Identify benchmarks of recovery needs for improved assessment tools.
- Define local government capacity for equitable housing recovery.
- Identify key factors that influence housing recovery outcomes.
Focus Area 3: Resilient Plans and Policies
We develop strategic models and policies to enhance resilience in affordable housing.
- Analyze how local government capacity affects equitable housing recovery.
- Enhance CDBG-DR action plans through future climate risk simulations.
- Assess resilience-cost tradeoffs for affordable manufactured housing.
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Center of Excellence in Climate Resilient & Equitable Housing (CECREH)
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Address
Texas Tech University, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
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Email
CECREH@ttu.edu