The reconstruction program will focus on utilities, rebuilding infrastructure and housing and building a flood preparedness system.

In the fiscal year that ended in June, the city spent more than $700 million on rebuilding housing.

Favors tax incentives to rebuild and expand low-income housing, while providing emergency relief for those in great need.

In the next few decades, much of Ealing was rebuilt, predominantly semi-detached housing designed for the rising middle-class.

This was attributed to an unwillingness of planners to rebuild low-income housing.

Much of the money was earmarked to be spent on constructing cyclone shelters and rebuilding housing.

This project used local people from both sides of the regional conflict and international volunteers to rebuild housing which had been destroyed.

There is, for one thing, bipartisan support in Congress for rebuilding housing, raising pay and improving health services for the troops.

Today Kosovo's economy hardly functions, even after substantial efforts to rebuild housing and basic infrastructure.

Eleanore Friedman, for one, said she never thought she would like the idea of rebuilding single-room housing.