Emergency Management
Keep Safe America: Building a Safe and Resilient Nation
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Our Goal: Affordable Housing Across the Nation, and the households that shelter, will have resources to adapt to and mitigate risks from natural hazards. In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of affordable homes across the nation have been lost from floods, tornadoes, fires and hurricanes, rendering them temporarily uninhabitable or unsafe. Millions more affordable homes are at substantial risk for damage and destruction as risk and rate of natural hazards increase in scope and intensity. No two disasters are alike, but the people whose lives and homes are affected all need the same thing – a safe and secure Home and Future. The chaos and instability created by natural disasters coupled with the complicated web of overlapping laws, agencies, funding sources, and requirements, make an equitable recovery difficult to achieve. In fact, disasters almost always exacerbate existing inequalities. Enterprise builds and preserves resilient housing and communities connected to opportunity. When natural disaster’s like Hurricanes, Floods and Fires struck, we are there – helping communities recover and build back stronger housing and ensure continuity of services. 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’ Emergency Management program seeks to strengthen affordable housing and vulnerable communities, and equip organizations so that they are better prepared for, and able to 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.
Resources for Organizational Support During Disasters
FEMA releases NOFO for Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program
Supporting Residents and Communities During Record Setting Wildfires
Fifteen Years Since Hurricane Katrina: Building Resilient Futures
Journey’s End: A Community Begins to Rebuild after the 2017 Tubbs Fire
Navigating FEMA Recovery Programs and Resources During Declared Disasters
Hurricane Season 2020 | Keep Safe Homes Webinar: Mitigate Mold & Health-Related Hazards and Restore Your Flooded Home
