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d) The poorest section of communities include the highest proportion of totally
damaged houses (estimate: 80 percent of all totally damaged houses) and
the highest number of neighborhoods that are flood-prone.
e) Grants are provided for all totally damaged houses (proposed, THB 50,000
per affected household, not THB 30,000) and medium damaged houses
(THB 10,000, THB 20,000 per household following the government’s criteria).
f) Apart from the THB 5,000 grants already distributed, lightly damaged houses
will not get any further grants. The remaining cost of repairs will be borne by
the families themselves. Though relatively small per family, this becomes a
large amount nationally because of the sheer number of affected families -
about 2 million families.
g) The government decides to expand the on-going cooperation with CODI into
rehabilitation and reconstruction of housing and neighborhoods, in particular
to help the lower income households.
h) Part of the flood prone-neighborhoods are motivated to redevelop their
neighborhood by improving housing structures and local infrastructure, land
readjustment, or even relocation to safer sites. For neighborhood redevelopment,
the following components are considered:
Issue
note
• Rebuilding houses (all totally destroyed Reconstrucon needs
houses and 10% of the medium damaged
houses)
• Technical assistance for the poorer families, Reconstrucon needs
12% of housing construcon costs
Some other needs are not considered part of reconstrucon needs (below):
• Infrastructure for re-planned neighborhoods
NOT reconstrucon needs
should be considered as part of nor-
mal situaon
• Land acquision (in case of reselement) NOT reconstrucon needs
should be considered as expenses for normal
situaons
• Facilitaon for land acquision, neighborhood
planning, infrastructure etc.
NOT reconstrucon needs
i) Household goods recovery is done by each family along with their earning
and savings capacity. This is here considered as part of normal situation
(instead of reconstruction) although a few families have to start almost from
scratch. No grants are proposed, as a sudden surge of consumption would
distort the market even more. In addition, there are already various producers
of electrical appliances that provide free and discounted services and spare
part replacement.
The proxies from above are supported by sample field visits and secondary data on
costs of transport, shelter, survival bags during evacuation (community, DDPM). Price
of household goods came from community group discussions, interviews, price lists.
The results will still be rough, as the proportion of various housing types in Bangkok
and other regions is still kept similar.
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