Disaster Recovery and Preparedness | Enterprise Community Partners

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Policy Convening Identifies Ways to Improve Disaster Recovery

Enterprise convened a group of over 60 current and former government officials, disaster recovery and resilience experts, and fair housing advocates for a policy event Improving Disaster Recovery and Building Community Resilience. The convening highlighted the need for Congress to permanently authorize the CDBG-DR Program at HUD.

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Clay Kerchof

Enterprise in the News

Apr13

'Frustration grows' as Congress delays Puerto Rico disaster relief discussions to May

Senior VP Marion McFadden discusses with NBC News the growing frustration in Puerto Rico over delays in disaster relief funding, which are deepening uncertainty over recovery efforts for 2017's hurricanes.

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Southeast

Enterprise in the News

Apr11

‘I Don’t Want to Stay Here’: Half a Million Live in Flood Zones, and the Government Is Paying

In the New York Times, Enterprise's Laurie Schoeman discusses the enormous challenges facing the hundreds of thousands of people living in government-subsidized housing at serious risk of flooding -- an increasingly urgent danger in the era of climate change.

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Housing Insecurity

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Gulf Coast

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How to Restore Your Flooded Home: Addressing Mold & Other Health-Related Hazards (slides)

The purpose of this webinar is to this share best practices for clean-up and post-flood mold remediation techniques to m

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Health

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How to Restore Your Flooded Home: Addressing Mold & Other Health-Related Hazards (recording)

Exposure to mold and other contaminants as a result of flooding can cause serious health...

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Health

Toolkit

Webinar

Enterprise in the News

Apr07

Hunger and an ‘Abandoned’ Hospital: Puerto Rico Waits as Washington Bickers

VIEQUES, P.R. — A newborn’s cries rarely echo anymore though the hallways of what passes...

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Housing Insecurity

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Mar28

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Clay Kerchof

Enterprise Testifies in House Financial Services Hearing on Improving CDBG-DR

Enterprise Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Senior Advisor for Resilience Marion McFadden testified before the House Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on improving and permanently authorizing the CDBG-DR Program.

Disaster Recovery and Preparedness

Resilience

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Clay Kerchof

Enterprise in the News

Mar11

Disaster-stricken communities aren't receiving the funds they were promised

Policy VP Marion McFadden co-authored this op-ed in The Hill, which calls on the administration to get disaster relief funding to the most impacted areas so they can build a more resilient future.

Disaster Recovery and Preparedness

Resilience

CDBG

Enterprise in the News

Feb05

Network Launched to Strengthen Puerto Rico Nonprofits

Affordable Housing Finance reports on the launch of the Puerto Rico Nonprofit Capacity Building Network, which will provide training, networking, and funding for nonprofits on the island to address areas such as housing, education, health, and resilience.

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Jan31