This report shares opportunities and challenges for financing and executing building decarbonization retrofits for unsubsidized multifamily housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Our Town Frederiksted, a grantee of Enterprise's USVI Housing Ecosystem Development Grants Program, launched an initiative to help support the rehabilitation of affordable housing.
Recent wildfires in LA were not isolated incidents, but rather part of a worsening pattern fueled by climate change. Despite the devastation, the fires present an opportunity for decision-makers to enact policies that ensure communities are rebuilt to better withstand future wildfires and other disasters.
Enterprise invited participants of its Climate Resilience Academies to compete for small grants designed to advance their resilience work. We spoke to several grantees about how they used the grant dollars and the significant benefits and impact of this targeted support.
As disasters increase in frequency and severity, it is more critical than ever to ensure disaster recovery programs are effective and responsive to the needs of impacted communities. Enterprise has long advocated for policies that promote resilience, efficiency, and adaptability in disaster recovery efforts, particularly around the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program, which is the only source for federal long-term disaster housing recovery funding.
Housing and climate experts working in Puerto Rico and the mainland convened to discuss ongoing efforts to build more sustainable communities on the Island and ensure people with the lowest incomes are not left behind in disaster recovery and resilience.
Published by HUD Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Federalism and Flexibility: Fifty Years of Community Development Block Grants