[This data is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license]
The real damage: Why FEMA is denying aid to Black disaster survivors in the Deep South
The Post reviewed more than 9.5 million applications to FEMA's Individuals and Households Program since 2010 to determine rejection rates based on land title issues. Details on the Post's methodology and summarized data can be found within this repo.
The raw data is unavailable to post here because it is too large but the 01_fema.etl.R import script will allow you to download it.
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data/clean_data - Cleaned up supplemental demographic data and re-projected shapefiles used in the analysis
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data/raw_data - Historical population data from the National Historical Geographic Information System
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scripts/import - Scripts to import FEMA and Census data
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scripts/analysis - Scripts for analysis
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outputs/findings - Exploratory notebooks
- Interactive exploratory county map - Exploratory county map