Proposed Locations for FEMA Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005 - 2006

The purpose of this study, Proposed Locations for FEMA Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2006, is to understand the factors affecting decision makers who sought to place travel trailers in the New Orleans, LA area post-Hurricane Katrina. This data set captures the number of temporary trailers and temporary trailer sites per zip code that were proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in conjunction with the New Orleans city government. Based on the TAC-RC-IA Priority Sites Report (Master Copy) dated 29 June 2006, this data set also provides demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, political, and civil society measures for 114 zip codes in and around metropolitan New Orleans, Louisiana where those tra ilers could have been placed. Demographic information includes population, voting age population, elderly population, and population density per zip code. Geographic measures include the area of the zip code in square miles along with three different measures for water damage and flooding per zip code. Socioeconomic indicators include median house prices, income, percentage of individuals attending college, percentage non-white, percentage of families below the poverty line, and perc entage unemployed per zip code. Following Hamilton (1993), we measure civil society mobilization potential through voter turn out. Note that this data set does not capture the areas that, in the end, received trailers. Rather, it can be used to test the siting heuristics used by decision makers in the post-Katrina environment when many local communities in the area publicly expressed their opposition to have trailers and trailer parks put in their back yards. The list of proposed sites can be analyzed to understand which areas city and government planners believed would be most amenable to these controversial f acilities in the post-Katrina environment.

本研究题为《2005-2006年卡特里娜飓风灾后新奥尔良市联邦应急管理局（FEMA）临时拖车拟选址》，旨在剖析影响决策者在路易斯安那州新奥尔良地区安置临时拖车的各类因素。本数据集收录了联邦应急管理局（FEMA）与新奥尔良市政府联合提出的、按邮政编码区域统计的临时拖车及临时拖车场地数量。本数据集基于2006年6月29日发布的《TAC-RC-IA优先选址报告（正式副本）》，同时收录了路易斯安那州新奥尔良都会区及周边共114个邮政编码区域的人口统计、社会经济、地理、政治及公民社会相关指标，这些区域均为拟安置临时拖车的候选范围。其中，人口统计信息涵盖各邮政编码区域的总人口、投票年龄人口、老年人口及人口密度；地理指标包含各邮政编码区域的平方英里面积，以及三类针对各区域水损与洪涝情况的评估指标；社会经济指标涵盖各邮政编码区域的房屋均价、收入水平、大学入学率、非白人人口占比、贫困家庭占比及失业率。参考汉密尔顿（1993）的研究框架，本数据集通过选民投票率衡量公民社会动员潜力。需注意，本数据集并未收录最终实际安置了临时拖车的区域。相反，该数据集可用于验证卡特里娜飓风灾后决策者所采用的选址启发式逻辑——彼时该地区诸多本地社区曾公开反对在其辖区内设置拖车及拖车营地。通过对拟选址列表的分析，可揭示灾后新奥尔良市及政府规划者认为在卡特里娜飓风后最易接纳这类具争议性设施的区域范围。