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Housing Solutions
Disaster Mitigation
Publications in this section highlight tools and strategies for addressing housing affordability challenges in your community. The Center’s housing solutions resources cover a broad range of topics – from state and local policies to preserve and expand the supply of affordable homes to efforts to meet the housing needs of older adults or families in areas vulnerable to natural disasters.
Apr 1, 2010
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HousingPolicy.org Toolkit: Make Homes More Resistant To Natural Disasters
Center for Housing Policy
The Center for Housing Policy, with support from WeatherPredict Consulting, developed an online toolkit to emphasize the need for greater attention to improving the disaster resistance of housing in areas vulnerable to natural disasters. The toolkit explores ways to help lower income families pay for upgrades and retrofits that can improve the disaster resistance of homes.
Mar 1, 2010
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Financing Efforts to Make Homes More Resistant to Natural Disasters
Ryan Sherriff
This issue brief describes federal and state programs and resources available for making homes more resistant to natural disasters. There is a particular focus on new programs geared toward financing disaster resistance for multifamily properties and the homes of lower income families.
Mar 1, 2010
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Making Homes More Resistant to Natural Disasters
Ryan Sherriff
This issue brief provides an overview of the measures households, builders and contractors can take to construct, renovate or retrofit homes to make them more resistant to natural disasters. In addition the brief gives an overview of community-level planning strategies and regulatory enhancements that can help protect homes and residents from disasters.
Mar 1, 2010
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Linking Efforts to Improve Disaster Resistance and Energy Efficiency of Homes
Ryan Sherriff
Measures that promote disaster resistance in homes have close links to those that promote energy efficiency. Therefore, home construction and retrofits serving both purposes can be installed at the same time. This issue brief explores new and potential future funding and incentives programs that enhance both the energy efficiency and disaster resistance of homes.