Housing that provides short-term refuge and life-sustaining services for disaster survivors who have been displaced from their homes and are unable to meet their own immediate post-disaster housing needs
Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Glossary/Acronyms (definitions of key terms as they are applied within the National Disaster Housing Strategy), Washington, DC, USA 2014. http://www.fema.gov/glossary/acronyms, (Dzstr Housing Stgy - Amer) {809}