climate change

Holmdel, New Jersey, moved its affordable housing to flood-prone land, raising a question about planners’ ethical obligations to speak up against such moves.

As ADUs gain national attention, cities are searching for the best ways to legalize their development and encourage construction.

What lessons can Ida offer to affordable housing managers and owners whose properties are at risk of damage from extreme weather events?

The devastation that communities in the Rio Grande Valley experience is twofold: the initial destruction of the floods and the cycle of debt and poverty as a result of predatory loans.

Officials in large and small cities along the East Coast are realizing that maybe they shouldn’t rebuild on land that repeatedly floods. Instead they’re focusing on buyouts, building affordable housing on higher ground, and other mitigation efforts.

Los Angeles’ Green New Deal is an opportunity to demand the type of investment in housing required to actually address the crisis we face. It would be an awful mistake to back down.

My first reaction to the emergence of “resilience” as a lens for viewing community development was mostly informed by skepticism.

Communities need accurate maps and more access to data to increase flood resilience—but right now FEMA’s not providing that.

How can affordable housing be more resilient to extreme weather and better prepared to deal with the consequences of climate change?

Our talk with Radhika Fox, the CEO of the US Water Alliance, about water justice and ways to build stronger communities.

With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.

Throughout 2018’s Sol-2-Sol climate justice convening, indigenous people led many of the actions and activities.