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April 16, 2021
Climate events like sea-level rise, extreme precipitation, and dangerous heatwaves and cold snaps—like the one Texas recently endured—stress our already vulnerable affordable housing stock and disproportionately impact low-income, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Preparing for climate shocks by assessing the vulnerability of buildings and communities to climate events and improving the resilience of affordable housing and neighborhood infrastructure are necessary to avoid future financial and social impacts on owners, residents, and communities.
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to a briefing hosted in coordination with the National Housing Trust and the Natural Resources Defense Council (national partners with the Energy Efficiency for All project) about the challenges and opportunities involved in protecting physically and socially vulnerable communities from the worst impacts of climate change. Speakers will discuss a new data resource developed by Climate Central that identifies federally-subsidized affordable housing at risk of chronic flooding due to sea-level rise; property-level climate risk assessment tools that are being piloted in Miami; a recently published scorecard of state flood-risk disclosure policies; and resilience measures in Los Angeles.
Dr. Benjamin Strauss, President and CEO, Climate Central
Affordable Housing at Risk from Coastal Flooding
Laurie Schoeman, National Director, Resilience and Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Community Partners
Preserving Affordable Housing from Climate Risk
Anna Weber, Policy Analyst, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Investing in Communities for the Long Term
Heather Rosenberg, Associate Principal, City Resilience Leader in the Americas, ARUP
Protecting Vulnerable Communities from Climate Impacts
Q&A Session
Highlights compiled by Jocelyn Rendon