Creating a VulnerableStrategicResilienceHousingPlan:ProtectingPeopleandProperties Gladys Cook Florida Housing Coalition Dir. Resilience & cook@flhousing.orgRecoveryDisaster
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION Workshops 1 & 2 • Part 1: Risk Assessment Tools: • Dr. Chris Emrich: Social Vulnerability Mapping for Natural Hazards • CJ Reynolds: REACH: Resilience and Energy Assessment of Communities and Housing • Andrea Galinski: Housing Coastal Flood Hazard Exposure Tool • Part 2: Planning, Equity and Community Engagement • Daphne Green: The Housing Asset Policy Audit Tool (HARP) • Sara Haas: Keep Safe Florida’s Mulitfamily Property Risk Assessment Tool • Dayna Lazarus: Building a Community Engagement Platform
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THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION
Housing Resilience NOW OR PAY LATER
PAY
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THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION Resilience and Mitigation are two sides on the same coin • Three facets to housing mitigation • Policy • Targeting • Treatments • All operate in an equity framework • Policy rests on risk assessment • Suite of tools – SOVI, REACH, HARP, Keep Safe Florida • Abundance of funding forthcoming- must prepare with data and unmet needs
What is Housing Mitigation?
● Based on risk assessment and a measure of a community’s resilience
The act of retrofitting structures and the site with the purpose of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards.
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION
● One indicator of resilience is the availability of housing that is affordable to all income groups
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION New Funding Opportunities • Build Back Better • FEMA BRIC • Resilient Florida • Inflation Reduction Act • State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds • PLUS • All housing programs suitable for mitigation treatments
THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION 1. Home Hardening, Elevation, & Rebuilding 2. Buyout & Relocation 3. Mobile Homes Tie-Downs & Enhancements 4. Priority for LMI, Vulnerable Populations, & Addressing Racial Equity 5. Incentives & Regulations 6. Home Insurance: Wind & Flood 7. Community Engagement & Competence FHC Seven Principles of Mitigation