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.
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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 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 Emerging Success Story of States Treating Home Resilience as a Public Investment
New report: How six states are financing property-level resilience improvements.
The Weekly: LA Has the Leadership and Capital to Rebuild with Resilience. It's Missing the System to Connect Them.
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.
The Missing Piece in LA's Wildfire Recovery Is Coordination
Three lessons from the Rebuilding with Resilience Summit
The Weekly: When A Spark Can Bankrupt a Utility, The Grid Is Now a Wildfire Defense System.
Wildfire season is changing how utilities fortify against wildfires
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 Verdict From The Resilient America Summit: Financing Resilience Is A Coordination Problem.
Three takeaways from the first Resilient America Summit
The Great Unlock
How public, private, and philanthropic leaders can scale the next chapter of climate resilience. A national call to action prepared for Chicago Climate Week and Aspen Ideas: Climate.
The Weekly: Extreme Heat Is Straining the Grid. Redesigning How We Build Can Ease the Pressure.
The drivers that make extreme heat so severe were all in play over Independence Day weekend: More people live in areas exposed to extreme heat, existing infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme heat, and cooling is expensive and not universally accessible.
New Jersey's Stormwater Utilities Are a Funding Source for Flood Infrastructure
Four New Jersey towns are charging property owners for stormwater runoff and using the money to fund flood repairs.
The Weekly: Cities Are Cutting Billions in Sewer Compliance Costs by Letting Nature Do the Work
By adopting green infrastructure in place of some gray infrastructure, Kansas City reduced the total costs of managing its combined sewer system through 2040 by over $2 billion.