7f4af487_for_Environmental_Human_RIghts__Recovery_Issue
No. Individuals do not have a legal right to assistance. The federal government is not even required to provide essential assistance, which includes reduction of immediate life-threatening risks, emergency medical care, shelter, clearing roads and bridges, demolition of unsafe buildings, and dissemination of health and safety information. (42 USC §5170b) Yes. All displaced persons have the right to request and receive protection and humanitarian assistance from governmental authorities as well as the right to voluntarily return or resettle in safety and with dignity. (Principle 3, 25 and 28) [Recovery Issue] 
Should people who have been displaced by a disaster have a right to humanitarian assistance and assistance to either return to their residences or resettle?
Advocates for Environmental Human RIghts
Recovery Issue