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The document situates housing financing within development and humanitarian concerns, then analyzes why recovery often fails and outlines five recurring constraints, including technical capacity gaps, funding volatility, coordination problems, unrealistic timelines, and limited understanding of local context. It also presents four case studies where recovery succeeds and summarizes actionable opportunities for building better before disasters, including potential World Bank support.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \nGLOBAL PROGRAM  \nRESILIENT HOUSING  \nPub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disc losure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nInvesting  \nin Housing Capacity to Improve Crisis Preparedness  \nPOLICY NOTE  \nJULY 2022  \n PISCO, PERU. Xavier Conesa for World Bank.   \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nThis document was prepared by a team from the Global Program for Resilient Housing at the World Bank. The team was led by Luis Miguel Triveno Chan Jan (Senior Urban Development Specialist), Sarah Elizabeth Antos (Senior Land Administration Specialist), and Alanna Simpson (Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist). Overall managerial support was provided by Niels Holm-Nielsen (Practice Manager, GFDRR).  \nMary C. Comerio (University of California Berkeley) was the main author of this document.  \nAdditional valuable feedback was provided by Enrique Pantoja (Operations Advisor), Xiaofeng Li (Operations Officer), Karima Ben Bih (Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist), Claudia Soto (Disaster Risk Management Specialist), Sayaka Yoda (Program Officer), and Gisela Ferrari (Consultant on Housing, Gender and Climate Change) .  \nThis document also benefitted from the contributions from Carlos Martín (Harvard University), Kimiro Meguro (University of Tokyo), Rob Olshansky (University of Illinois), and Michael Teitz (University of California Berkeley) .  \nDevan Kreisberg and Edward Tivnan edited the document.  \nXavier Conesa was responsible for the design, layout, and photos included in the document.  \nThis note would not have been possible without the support of the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction.  \nThe Global Program for Resilient Housing (GPRH) provides technical and financial support to governments interested in increasing safety and resilience in the housing sector. 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