When extreme weather disrupts communities, small businesses often wind up being the first responders and first casualties. Investing in small business resilience can translate into fewer closures, less unemployment, faster recovery, and stronger local spending after disasters strike.
Two trends are colliding in state finance offices: Emergency, or “rainy day,” funds are shrinking at the exact moment climate-related revenue losses are mounting.
States are seeing their emergency reserves shrink for the first time since the Great Recession. The path forward is a new, two-pronged pro-growth, pro-resilience model that expands the state’s economic base while simultaneously modernizing the financial tools used to protect it.
The one-stop source for those seeking to understand how resilient building materials, design decisions, and land use protect the built environment and how allocating budget to resilience and adaptation strategies can protect business and community interests.
The Epicenter’s Real Estate solutions page helps readers understand how decisions related to how we build and where we build impact resiliency in our built environment.
This page features original content from The Epicenter on resilient real estate, building materials, and land use decisions, alongside curated reports, innovative solutions, and perspectives from experts in the wider real estate ecosystem. This page, and the stories we seek to share, highlight resilient economics and how communities can invest for the long-term.
Stay tuned for forthcoming real estate and building resources from the wider resiliency and adaptation ecosystem.
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