Feb 14, 2022
In the latest episode of
America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Laurie
Schoeman, the National Director for Climate
Risk Reduction and Resilience at Enterprise Community
Partners. We discuss: affordable housing and climate
change; standardizing resilience in building codes; what’s
problematic about the subject of managed retreat; Resilience21; and
a new, important FEMA housing policy change.
Topics discussed:
- Affordable housing and climate change.
- Resilience should be as well understood by the public as Energy star in regard to energy efficiency.
- Standardizing resilience in building codes.
- What’s problematic about the subject of managed retreat.
- Resilience21 – What is it and what does it do?
- How to distribute climate funding in an equitable way.
- Learn about FEMA’s recent policy decision regarding long term housing.
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Links in episode:
https://www.climateresiliencysolutions.com/
https://keepsafeguide.enterprisecommunity.org/
https://www.resilience21.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/us/hurricane-ida-fema-housing.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/welcome-2022-toast-fresh-start-laurie-schoeman/?trackingId=KHJQKTtmTr67gKuiCfhZ8g%3D%3D
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-building-forward-looking-backward-laurie-schoeman/
https://nysclimateimpacts.org/news/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/16/disaster-survivors-fema-housing-trailers-apartments/
https://businesscontinuity.enterprisecommunity.org/sites/default/files/strategies-for-multifamily-building-resilience.pdf
https://businesscontinuity.enterprisecommunity.org/sites/default/files/strategies-for-multifamily-building-resilience.pdf
https://keepsafeguide.enterprisecommunity.org/en/water-management-and-storage
America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and
Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/
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The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
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7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight
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