This chapter focuses on post-disaster housing reconstruction and its link to rights, justice, and resilience due to society’s pursuit of a “dominant” development model. It draws on scholarly literature in disasters, development, and built environment studies since the late eighteenth century. This critique shows that the dominant growth-driven development model is unsustainable as it has perpetuated power imbalances, marginalized the vulnerable, perpetuated underdevelopment, and exploited the environment, as evident by climate change. Continuing on the current development path is unlikely to yield the changes essential for human society to survive in a rapidly changing climate. Post-disaster housing recovery offers an opportunity for a systemic and radical change. The chapter calls for a radical shift towards post-development models of housing reconstruction that encourages localized, place-based, environmentally sensitive, empowering, and people-centered approaches, particularly for marginalized communities in the Asia-Pacific region. It advocates for a systems approach, highlighted in the concept of resilience. While participatory approaches are well-researched, the concept of resilience lacks clarity, or a normative dimension and operationalizability during housing recovery. The chapter contributes to discourses linking post-disaster housing reconstruction to long term resilience by distilling essential attributes of resilient recovery.