One year after Superstorm Sandy, towns in New Jersey still have over $28 billion in unmet recovery needs, according to a new report released by the Rutgers-Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration. The report has confirmed opinions that damage was much more widespread than previously understood, impacting more than just coastline communities, and disproportionately affecting low-income households who were without flood insurance.
“We believe this is the most comprehensive cost analysis of the storm so far”, says Marc Holzer, founding dean of the Rutgers-Newark SPAA. “It was our goal to give the state objective data that can be used to learn from Sandy and improve the state’s disaster response in the future.”
You can access the full report here: http://njdatabank.newark.rutgers.edu/special-sandy
Municipal level data can be accessed here: http://njdatabank.newark.rutgers.edu/profilecomparison
