The Weekly: Alabama Used Five Financing Levers to Scale Resilient Building Standards Across the State
Alabama’s approach to scaling the FORTIFIED standard has become a blueprint nationwide.
Alabama Paid for Stronger Roofs. Hurricane Claims Fell Up to 74%.
Alabama used five financing levers to get insurers and homeowners to pay for FORTIFIED roofs.
Cities Face $1 Trillion in Deferred Infrastructure Costs. Building Resilience Requires Pricing That Exposure.
Municipal markets overlook the cost of aging infrastructure. New tools can help cities size their reserve funds against their actual exposure.
To Solve America’s Housing Crisis, We Need to Center Resilience
If we don’t build it right and build it to last, new housing supply won’t solve today’s housing crisis.
The Second Best Time to Invest in Resilience Is Right After a Disaster Hits
For most of the country, in most years, the post-disaster window is not the second-best time to invest in resilience. It is the only time anyone does.
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The Weekly: Alabama Used Five Financing Levers to Scale Resilient Building Standards Across the State
Alabama’s approach to scaling the FORTIFIED standard has become a blueprint nationwide.
The Weekly: Hurricane Isaias Is a Test of the Gulf Coast’s Bet on Hardened Homes
Florida and Alabama have spent hundreds of millions fortifying homes. Isaias is the first mainland hurricane to test that resilience since 2024.
The Weekly: Resilience Pays for Itself Several Times Over. Communities Are Finding Ways to Capture the Return.
Resilience benefits are often spread so widely that no single payer sees the payoff. New models and policies are starting to close that gap.
The Weekly: Resilience Went Mainstream at Climate Week NYC. Our Team Shared Three Takeaways.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
The Weekly: El Niño Is a Stress Test for America’s Infrastructure. It Can Show Us Where to Invest Next.
There is a 75% chance that El Niño strength will exceed every event on record since 1950.
The Weekly: Disasters Open A Window To Rebuild with Resilience. Policymakers Can Use It To Fix The System.
To address the housing crisis in the U.S., we need a three-part strategy for centering resilience.
The Weekly: States' Resilience Investments Are Easing Housing Costs and Steadying Insurance Markets
A new set of case studies and a policy brief lay out how states are financing property-level resilience improvements that reduce disaster losses, improve housing affordability, and stabilize stressed insurance markets.
The Weekly: After the Marshall Fire, Builders Played a Central Role in Shaping Resilient Rebuilds
Builders have the power to influence how resilient a home rebuild is.
Hazard briefings
The Weekly: Why This Wildfire Season is Already Breaking Records
With fire seasons now roughly two months longer than they were in the 1970s, 2026 could reset the ceiling on wildfire losses again.
Wildfires: The Drivers Putting People and Assets At Risk
Climate change and federal policies are making wildfires more frequent and intense. Migration patterns are increasing the exposure of assets to wildfire threats. And assets that are more vulnerable to wildfires translate into higher costs.
Wildfires: Opportunities For the Private Sector
Part II of our Wildfires Briefing explores four categories of opportunity for the private sector: 1) Implementing modern building materials and codes; 2) Technologies for better fire management; 3) New insurance models; and 4) Private financing for forest management.
The Weekly: The Rising Costs of Severe Convective Storms
Several drivers are contributing to the rise in expensive severe convective storms: 1) population growth in high-risk areas; 2) non-resilient physical assets; and 3) rising building premiums.
Public finance
The Weekly: Resilience Pays for Itself Several Times Over. Communities Are Finding Ways to Capture the Return.
Resilience benefits are often spread so widely that no single payer sees the payoff. New models and policies are starting to close that gap.
The Weekly: Resilience Went Mainstream at Climate Week NYC. Our Team Shared Three Takeaways.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
The Weekly: The Tools to Finance Resilience Already Exist. To Unlock Scale, We Need Coordination.
We need to move beyond asking simply, How do we fund this project? and start asking, What financial risk does this community face, what outcomes could change that trajectory, and how should we invest accordingly?
The Weekly: When Governments Prove Resilience Pays Off, Insurers, Investors, and Developers Start Funding It
When benefits tied to investing in resilience can be measured and demonstrated, major new sources of capital become available to help finance resilience.