Emergency Management
Keep Safe America: Building a Safe and Resilient Nation
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Our goal is for affordable homes across the nation to have access to the resources they need to alleviate and lessen the risks of natural disasters. In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of affordable homes across the nation have been impacted by floods, tornadoes, fires, and hurricanes. Natural hazards have made homes temporarily uninhabitable or unsafe to live. No two disasters are the same, but the people whose lives are impacted all need the same thing – a safe and secure home and future. There are many complicated hurdles to overcome that are amplified by natural disasters that make recovery difficult to achieve. From overlapping laws and sources of funding, to different agencies and competing priorities, disasters make the road to equity even more difficult. Enterprise builds and preserves resilient housing and communities connected to opportunity. When natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, and fires strike, we are there – helping communities recover and build back stronger housing and safer communities. Our Keep Safe Emergency Management Lifecycle provides communities and partners the tools to prepare for and navigate disasters. Stay connected with Enterprise and join our efforts to make homes and communities stronger, more equitable and better prepared in the face of disaster. |
Enterprise supports housing and communities in the four phases of the disaster lifecycle
Mitigate Risk
Understand risk, fortify your home/property, build capacity, and update operational guidelines.
Get Ready for Impact
Update readiness plans, pack a “Go Bag”, ensure back up systems are in place and align communications.
Disaster Strikes
Execute readiness plans, understand & apply for relief, and check on safety of staff and buildings' condition.
Build Better
Ensure equitable recovery, utilize best building practices, and draw from the inherent strength in communities.
When we work with communities to rebuild homes, we also ensure resilient futures. Enterprise’s Emergency Management program seeks to strengthen affordable housing and vulnerable communities and prepare organizations so that they can prepare and respond to extreme weather events and emergencies.
We work collaboratively with our partners and the communities they serve, tailoring our services to the unique challenges and opportunities wherever we work.
- Navigate federal regulatory requirements: We bring technical expertise and knowledge of federal agencies and programs like CDBG-DR, New Markets Tax Credits, etc.
- Streamlined implementation: Our extensive experience working with HUD and other funders ensures programs move forward effectively and recovery and rebuilding proceed on schedule.
- Tailored strategies: Our teams comprehensively assess communities’ specific mid- and long-term disaster recovery needs.
- Continuum of services: We deliver best practices and insights at each stage of a community’s recovery and rebuilding efforts.
- Enhanced local capacity: We focus on the long-term sustainability of affordable housing and community development systems and networks.
Our work on the ground, in your community
- Covid-19 resources in your neighborhood
- Building Resilient Futures in the Gulf Coast
- Climate Strong Island Initiative
- Keep Safe Miami
- Supporting California's Wildfire Efforts
- Democratizing Disaster Recovery in Northern California - Coming in 2021
Our experienced policy team helps:
- Highlight the need for dedicated technical assistance and capacity building for governments and nonprofits receiving federal funds and interfacing with federal rebuilding programs
- Develop and share best practices on the administration of federal funds
- Advocate for smarter standards to ensure the billions of dollars spent on rebuilding will not put people, property and taxpayer dollars at risk from future natural events.
Enterprise Community Partners Releases 2021 Affordable Housing Playbook
Enterprise and Partners Launch the Ready to Respond Toolkit
