Join us for an urgent LIVE conversation about the impacts of the recent Guadalupe River flooding and “After Allen Field”, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program.
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See more of the Revolving Door Project's work on the escalating and deeply intertwined climate-insurance-housing crisis at the link below:
therevolvingdoorproject.org/home-insuran...
As @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @carlyfabian.bsky.social said: "This data is a first step toward monitoring the crisis, identifying vulnerable communities, & informing urgent policy interventions."
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"Our hope is for this resource to be generative—to prompt further questions, research and analysis, on-the-ground organizing, local op-eds, and investigative journalism," said our @kennystancil.bsky.social.
therevolvingdoorproject.org/mapping-the-...
NEW: "Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis" contains a series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social.
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"These institutions...are more than just research facilities."
Today, during the second event in our DOGE series, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee described the impact of DOGE's cuts on American research institutions. Watch the full event: www.americanprogress.org/events/resea...
Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true.
One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.
In other FEMA news, members of Congress re-introduced the bipartisan FEMA Independence Act yesterday, which would remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security and make it a cabinet-level independent agency. Here's the full text: d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/moskowitz.ho...
i'm a coastal elite (gulf coast)
I wrote about disaster recovery in the age of outlandish executive orders. If you live in a city, state, or county that was allocated CDBG-DR, the blog contains a link to a spreadsheet that can help you find the draft plan for your community.
blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleto...
This is a good article that does a nice job of explaining what local dispatch centers do. It's unfortunate that it had to be written under these circumstances.
There's a lot of specialized equipment and tech in dispatch centers that are not easily moved or replaced. 1/
my most recent blog for UCS considers the ripple effects of FEMA and HUD staff reductions on local climate planning and municipal bond markets ⬇️
