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RPA & Enterprise explore using policy & partnerships to protect affordable homes, accelerate recovery & strengthen communities.
Climate-driven disasters are placing growing pressure on an already constrained housing supply, threatening existing homes, increasing costs for residents & housing providers, & making it more difficult for communities to meet urgent affordability needs. As municipalities grapple with the need to build more resilient communities able to withstand extreme weather events, the critical question is how policymakers, planners, & housing experts can translate ambitious blueprints into effective, local action.
This panel will bring together Regional Plan Association (RPA) & Enterprise Community Partners to examine the policies, planning decisions, & implementation strategies needed to protect existing housing & accelerate recovery. Drawing from national standards & regional planning frameworks, panelists will examine the challenges communities & housing providers face, & highlight the resources & partnerships needed to address the intersecting climate & housing crisis.
Enterprise Community Partners will draw on insights from its Climate Resilience Academies to highlight the challenges affordable housing owners, operators, & developers face in preparing their portfolios for climate risks while safeguarding residents. Through its work with more than 150 participants across U.S. regions, Enterprise has seen that housing providers increasingly understand the urgency of resilience but often lack the staff capacity, funding, technical expertise, & region-specific guidance needed to act. Enterprise will discuss opportunities to close these gaps to further help housing providers move from awareness to implementation.
Regional Plan Association will draw from its Averting Crisis report & subsequent work with communities in the New York metropolitan region to examine how housing growth & climate resilience can be advanced together. RPA will share real-time lessons being learned about effective ways to move from high-altitude planning to on-the-ground implementation, highlighting its work with local governments, community organizations, & neighborhood stakeholders in seven communities across Queens, Westchester, & Long Island. The work will result in local actions that affect zoning changes, land-use reform, investments & complementary policies to align housing growth with climate risk & capacity.
These organizations will offer expertise on climate readiness & disaster response, connecting federal & local policy to on-the-ground implementation to make communities more resilient amid the growing housing affordability crisis.
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