Keep Safe Florida

What is Keep Safe Florida?

Enterprise launched Keep Safe Florida in Miami, Orlando, and Tampa in May 2022 to equip affordable housing owners with the tools and resources they need to assess and address threats from climate change and natural disaster. By the end of program, we're proud to have trained 36 organizations, and 168 properties and over 13,000 homes were assessed for improved climate resilience.

While the learning collaborative is no longer active, there are still many tools, online guides, and recorded trainings that you can access to independently assess your buildings.

Resilience Resources

Access Keep Safe Florida Tools and Guides

Portfolio Protect

The Enterprise Portfolio Protect Tool helps owners, operators and developers of affordable housing understand which properties are at highest risk from flooding, fire, earthquakes and other natural hazards.

Building Protect

With Building Protect, users can identify strategies for high-risk properties and access recommendations and resources to help minimize potential harm to their properties and keep residents’ homes safe.

Hazard Strategies Guide

This guide outlines strategies related to the potential vulnerabilities identified during the self-assessment, also linking to additional resources.

Business Continuity Tool

This Toolkit equips multifamily affordable building owners & managers with a plan to address crisis.

Keep Safe: A Guide for Resilient Housing Design in Island Communities

Build back stronger with this guide for designing resilient homes in island communities.

Ready to Respond: Strategies for Multifamily Building Resilience

This manual provides practical guidance for multifamily building owners on a variety of retrofit and mitigation strategies.

What's at Stake?

For owners of multiple properties, even one damaged building can undermine the financial health and integrity of an entire portfolio. Any resulting property loss or extensive damage can also significantly impact resident well-being, lead to displacement and cause economic distress across entire communities.

Between 2006 and 2016, climate-related events cost an average of $359 million dollars in property damage, and this was before the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Hurricane Michael in 2018. Aging affordable housing properties must act now to mitigate the risks of extreme weather conditions to their buildings and protect residents’ access to safe, healthy homes.

Who's Involved?

Keep Safe Florida was developed in partnership with the City of Miami, City of Orlando, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, Florida Housing Coalition, and IBTS, and made possible thanks to the generous support of Truist and Southeast Sustainability Directors Network.

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Keep Safe Florida was supported through a grant from Truist Financial Corporation through its Truist Charitable Fund, a donor-advised fund at The Winston-Salem Foundation.

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