RFA Opportunity
The Mid-Atlantic Climate Resilience Academy is designed specifically to help multifamily affordable housing owners, operators, and developers across Washington ...
The multifamily owners, operators and developers we work with across the country told us they needed practical resources that were both effective and accessible to protect their portfolios from a changing climate. In response, we launched the nation’s first Climate Resilience Academy focused on climate risk reduction for affordable housing.
Building upon the success of our first academy, we’ve tailored our content to address unique hazards faced by different regions around the country. More than 150 multifamily affordable housing professionals have participated in one of our regional cohorts. Upon completing an academy, 100% of those surveyed felt capable of assessing their portfolio’s climate risk.
We developed a collection of climate risk reduction tools and resources to help affordable housing developers, owners and operators make their properties more resilient.
Whether you’re looking to understand your risk, build readiness plans, mitigate impact or recover from a disaster, we have the tools you need. We’ve also developed a FAQs page to help you find the information you need fast in the event of a crisis.
Visit the Resource Hub to learn more or contact us to explore additional capacity building programs.
In addition to our industry-leading resources, we partner with researchers and government organizations to advance the field of climate risk reduction in affordable housing development while addressing the growing inadequacies of our system.
Our practice-informed policy guidance leverages more than 20 years of crafting and implementing actionable policies. We are currently focused on advocating for policies and building requirements that utilize forward-looking climate data to create comfortable, safe housing in the face of changing participation patterns, heat stressors and more extreme weather events.
Learn more about our federal policy priorities, including advocating for equitable implementation of Inflation Reduction Act funding and permanent authorization of CDBG-DR.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
The Urban Institute | Fannie Mae |
Freddie Mac | National Renewal Energy Lab | Brookings Institution |
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