How can housing owners, operators and investors cope with the consequences of wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters?

Each of the 6,500 households in Puerto Rico still without reliable electricity is a victim of the island’s struggle to recover after the 2017 hurricane season. About half the 20,000 homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands still need repair, and thousands of residents in the Florida Keys continue reassembling their lives after the storms.

On episode 6 of Building Blocks, Enterprise experts Erika Ruiz and Laurie Schoeman give us a glimpse at efforts to build back Puerto Rico and negotiate the delicate process of reconstruction with a new emphasis on resilience.

The House Committee on Financial Services approved the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2018 (H.R. 4557), which would permanently authorize the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program.