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INSTRUCTIONS-TASK H. TEMPORARY HOUSING (Time to complete the task: 15 minutes) Purpose Help people find housing after the emergency shelters have closed and before damaged housing is repaired or replaced. Materials · Number of people needing emergency shelter from Task B · Base map with information from Tasks A-G · Handout F. Damage Assessment · Community plan and zoning map Steps 1. Review Handout F. Damage Assessment and your estimate of shelter population from Task B. From this information and your general knowledge of the income, ethnicity, age, and special needs of the community's population, estimate the number of households needing temporary housing. As a rule of thumb, you can assume that about 10 percent of the shelter population will need assistance with temporary housing (divide by average number of persons per household to get number of units). 2. Identify on the base map apartment buildings, hotels, and motels which were not flooded and are likely to have vacant units which could be used to meet part of the need for temporary housing (yellow). 3. Select sites with suitable infrastructure to be used for trailers or prefab housing, considering that the selected sites could continue to be used for housing after the need for temporary housing has passed. Outline the selected temporary housing sites in yellow on the base map. 4. Does your community have adequate housing programs now which could be used to aid flood victims? On Handout 4. Recommended Actions, list actions that the community might take now to help people bridge the gap between emergency shelters and permanent rehousing. Products . Base map showing sites selected for temporary housing . Entries on Handout 4. Recommended Actions Instructions-Task H