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’s approach to scaling the FORTIFIED standard has become a blueprint nationwide.
Alabama used five financing levers to get insurers and homeowners to pay for FORTIFIED roofs.
Florida and Alabama have spent hundreds of millions fortifying homes. Isaias is the first mainland hurricane to test that resilience since 2024.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
To address the housing crisis in the U.S., we need a three-part strategy for centering resilience.
If we don’t build it right and build it to last, new housing supply won’t solve today’s housing crisis.
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.
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.
New report: How six states are financing property-level resilience improvements.
Builders have the power to influence how resilient a home rebuild is.
Los Angeles isn't short on ideas or expertise. But, like many communities rebuilding after a disaster, it lacks the connections, systems, and capacity to bring them together at scale.
Three lessons from the Rebuilding with Resilience Summit