1. Disaster Preparedness & Mitigation
Susan Anderson
September 12, 2018

2. In 2015 extreme weather events caused over $50B in damage to homes, businesses, and infrastructure in the United States and natural disasters are becoming more severe by the year.
Devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Isaac, flooding in Colorado, fires in California, tornadoes in Mississippi and the many severe natural disasters that have occurred over recent years has been a stark reminder of the importance of having a safe place to call home.
These disasters call attention to the fact that people of least economic means also face the greatest challenges to adapting and thriving amid the effects of the climate crisis. This vulnerability extends beyond individuals to low-income communities as a whole, including the community-based organizations that serve them.

3. DISASTER RECOVERY & RESILIENCE
Ensure affordable housing across the nation is designed, constructed and operated to mitigate and adapt to the risks of severe weather and a changing climate.
Solutions-Building tools and initiatives to help CDC partners mitigate and prepare for climate emergencies.
Capital-Creating financial tools to promote mitigation, resilience and preservation of affordable housing.
Policy-Support Public Sector Partners to meet the needs of affordable housing sector adaptation and mitigation of climate impacts and risks
ECP’s Faubourg Lafitte in New Orleans building high performance during Flooding August 2017
Investing in resilience in at-risk communities before disaster strikes is one of the most cost-effective ways to protect residents and property while strengthening their ability to weather the increasingly severe storms ahead. Enterprise Community Partners’ Resilient Communities Initiative seeks to strengthen communities and residents so they are better prepared for, and able to respond to, extreme weather events and other emergencies.
Through offices in 11 markets, Enterprise partners with community-based organizations, affordable multifamily property owners and government agencies to support resilience at the building, neighborhood, city and state levels. We collaborate with community leaders and residents directly to understand their needs and ensure our efforts focus on low-income people and help drive and shape sound, equitable outcomes.
Resilience is the capacity for households, communities, and regions to adapt to changing conditions and to maintain and regain functionality in the face of stress or disturbance.
Extreme weather events are placing affordable housing and low income communities at great risk—losing livelihoods, lives and homes.
Low-income communities are on the front lines of this damage, and they continue to be the most vulnerable.
Short-term displacement can lead to long-term homelessness, temporary business closures can lead to a neighborhood-level economic downturn, and disruption of community services can lead to an extended loss of service continuity – all increasing public costs and compounding health and economic challenges from which low-income communities disproportionately suffer.
We work collaboratively with our partners and the communities they serve, tailoring our services to the unique needs of each place.
We bring the commitment, knowledge and experience to help low- and moderate-income communities manage long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts following floods and other weather emergencies.

4. DESIGN FOR RESILIENCE CRITERIA
For over 10 years, Enterprise has been supporting climate-vulnerable communities through greening communities, supporting disaster recovery and supporting rebuilding and community resilience. Through our Enterprise Green Communities criteria, we are transforming the way America thinks about, designs, builds, and rehabilitates affordable housing. This program was developed 10 years ago to prove that it is possible to bring the health, environmental, and economic benefits of green building to low-income communities – we are dispelling the myth that green is a luxury
We use the Criteria to push for highest standards in healthy housing, active design, efficiency, and conservation. Green building integrates materials and methods that promote environmental quality, economic vitality, and social benefits through design, construction and operations of the built environment.
One of the most significant changes in the 2015 criteria is the addition of resilience measures. The measures are intended to support the certifying developer/owner’s operational and/or infrastructure resilience. Projects are encouraged to incorporate the most appropriate resiliency measures given the project building type, location and expected resident population and are required to incorporate at least one of ten Design for Resilience Criteria.

5. Co-developed award-winning redevelopment of Lafitte public housing in New Orleans
Convened leading developers on post-Sandy affordable housing recovery and rebuilding
Launched Sandy Help Desk providing pro bono design and construction guidance to homeowners
Sponsored Far-Roc Resilient Housing International Design Competition after Sandy.
Demonstrated benefits of Mississippi cottages as temporary and permanent homes
Providing training and tools on affordable housing business continuity and infrastructure protection.
Ensure federal resources target people and communities with the greatest need
Highlight need for technical assistance and capacity building for those receiving federal rebuilding support
Advocate for future-proofing standards and a responsive NFIP program

6. Enterprise Multifamily Tools For Resilience
Enterprise believes that communities recover more fully from a disaster when resiliency strategies are incorporated into the recovery process. While disaster recovery relates to immediate community needs and resiliency relates to long-term sustainability, it is critical for the municipality to launch both a recovery and resiliency strategy simultaneously.
The Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. Ready to Respond Tools for Resilience were developed to support affordable multifamily housing organizations in making their buildings resilient, their staff ready to respond, and ensure their residents are safe in the event of a disaster. The three core tools are:    
Are you Ready to Respond? – An organizational self-assessment for emergency readiness.
Ready to Respond: Disaster Staffing Toolkit – A framework to help organizations develop staffing plans to protect buildings, engage residents and continue business operations in the event of a disaster.
Ready to Respond: Strategies for Multifamily Building Resilience – A set of 20 retrofit strategies building owners can implement to make their properties more resilient against climate hazards.
Ensuring that affordable housing and low income communities have the necessary protection in place to withstand climate events and emergencies is a critical program for Enterprise. Enterprise’s is focused on long-term resiliency of communities.
Multifamily landlords and organizations play a critical role in disaster preparedness, recovery and resilience.
The Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. Ready to Respond Tools for Resilience were developed to support affordable multifamily housing organizations in making their buildings resilient, their staff ready to respond, and ensure their residents are safe in the event of a disaster. ​
Enterprise’s Ready to Respond: Tools for Resilience were developed to help affordable housing organizations of all sizes manage shocks from major disasters and develop the resilience needed to adapt to future emergencies. We worked with a network of partners and technical advisors to produce these tools. ​
Our New Orleans office helped support our efforts having deployed resources and TA to Gulf Coast after Katrina. The tools are also a companion to support the Compliance with the 2015 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria and its new criterion: Design for Resilience​
These tools will help you develop your emergency plan to help you achieve the following goals:  ​
Building Protection: Minimizing damage and ensuring a quick return to service ​
Resident Engagement: Supporting the safety, preparedness and recovery of residents​
Business Continuity: Maintaining key business operations throughout a disaster

7. Top 5 Reasons to be Ready to Respond
Reduce risk to valuable building assets and reduce repair and replacement costs.
Reduce risk to residents, especially vulnerable residents, reducing injury, ensuring safety, and maintaining habitability of units.
Ensure continuity of business line during an emergency, reducing loss of revenue and mitigating business interruption.
By instituting protocols to track expenses during an emergency you can shorten expense reimbursement time from insurance companies and public funding support.
Establish confidence in property management capability, increasing resident and investor security.
Reduce risk to valuable building assets and reduce repair and replacement costs.
Reduce risk to residents, especially vulnerable residents, reducing injury, ensuring safety, and maintaining habitability of units.
Ensure continuity of business line during an emergency, reducing loss of revenue and mitigating business interruption.
By instituting protocols to track expenses during an emergency you can shorten expense reimbursement time from insurance companies and public funding support.
Establish confidence in property management capability, increasing resident and investor security.

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9. Spotlight: Top Tools
Worksheets, guides, and checklists to support each Role
In PDF and customizable Word formats
The toolkit was with our housing partners in the field—12 leading affordable housing developers were engaged in the development of the emergency planning toolkit.

10. Your Go Bag Checklist Resident Engagement Team Leader Tool
Essential items residents need in the event of an evacuation
Encourages residents to self-prepare
Example of resident engagement go-bag checklist

11. Insurance Coverage Worksheet
Business Continuity Chief Tool
Tracks insurance coverage and helps identify gaps
Customizable Word document
Worksheet to help you identify insurance coverage

12. Implementation Get Buy In from Leadership Manage
Meet with Board/Leadership to Discuss Plan
Manage
Appoint Emergency Preparedness Coordinator (EPC)
Engagement
Engage residents, board, staff and community
All tools are free and funded with support from HUD
Cost will mainly be staff time allocated to exercise
Depending on how well organized you are initially will determine timing and cost of preparing the plan.
You can also extract tools from the planning kit and build your own plan.

13. Strategies for Multifamily Building Resilience
2nd tool will support your infrastructure preparedness and resilience
Strategies will enable multifamily property owners to start planning their resilience work to protect their properties from a variety of climate hazards typical of Northeastern United States.
The manual can be used by owners, design teams, operators, and property managers to map ways of understanding risk to particular hazards (both climate and disaster) and identify ways of mapping potential solutions to these risk.
The goal is to reduce hazard risk and reduce impact of risks to facilities and to residents and tenants.

14. Guiding Principles Resilience is a smart investment
Resilience should be a part of the capital improvement planning process
Use lessons learned from extreme weather events to rebuild smarter
Connected communities are more resilient
Resilience is a smart investment
Resilience should be a part of the capital improvement planning process
Use lessons learned from extreme weather events to rebuild smarter
Connected communities are more resilient
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15. Operations and Staffing Insurance and Risk Reduction
Making an Inve$tment in Resilience
Operations and Staffing
Insurance and Risk Reduction
Utility Savings
Operations
Based on guiding principles we know that increasing your efficiency can have immediate impact on your operations expenses-less repairs, more efficient use of staff time. You can start seeing benefits through the year
And during and emergency having a more resilient system can also reduce repairs, downtime for systems, and

16. Building your Scope
Assess you Risk
Determine your Strategy

17. Determine your Resilience Strategies

18. Protection: Strategies that reduce a facility’s vulnerability to extreme weather.
Wet floodproofing
Dry flood proofing
Site perimeter floodproofing
Resilient elevators
backwater valves
Sump pump

19. Strategies that improve a facility’s ability to adapt to changing climate.
Envelope efficiency
Elevated equipment
Elevated living space
Surface stormwater
Window shading
Distributed heating

20. Redundancy: Strategies that provide backup in the event of a loss of power or other critical services.
Backup power
Emergency lighting
water

21. Community: Strategies that encourage changes in behavior to enhance resilience
Building communities ties
Creating community resilience space
Developingan emergency management plan
Organizing for community resilience