What Prior Disasters Have Taught Housing Advocates About How to Respond to COVID-19

When it comes to helping people maintain or recover their housing, hurricanes and fires aren’t as different from a pandemic as one might think.
“To me, this feels eerily like when we return from a hurricane,” says Vivian Ballou, executive director of Legacy Community Development Corporation, speaking of this era of sheltering in place to contain the coronavirus. It’s the stillness, she explains: “The community is kind of quiet, the stores are limited.”