Climate Resilience

Armed with innovative resilience planning, our partners can withstand the impacts of a changing climate.

The 2022 Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities annual report looks at the program's impact through its first six rounds of funding.

The Strategies for Multifamily Building Resilience provides practical guidance for multifamily building owners on a variety of retrofit and mitigation strategies.

Enterprise's Climate Resilience Academy - Gulf Coast is a cohort-based technical assistance and learning opportunity for affordable housing owners, operators and developers across Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.

Enterprise provided a number of recommendations to strengthen FEMA's Community Rating System to reduce flood risk to millions of vulnerable households

Co-authored by Enterprise and California Housing Partnership, this report uses newly released data to assess five rounds of investment through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program (AHSC).

Comments on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Request for Input (RFI) on programs, regulations, collections of information, and policies for the agency to consider modifying, streamlining, expanding, or repealing in light of recent Executive Orders. The efforts aim to guide FEMA to effectively achieve the agency’s mission in a manner that furthers the goals of advancing equity for all, including those in underserved communities and bolstering resilience from the impacts of climate change.

The session highlights development projects that have effectively preserved properties by using unique approaches and resources including the Coal Severance Tax Trust Fund.

Comments on Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Request for Input (RFI) on the current and future climate and natural disaster risk to the housing finance system and to the regulated entities: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) and the Federal Home Loan Banks (the FHLBanks).

Affordable housing organizations face unique challenges during emergency events. Having an effective, well-coordinated plan in place before disaster strikes can make all the difference in the recovery for Multifamily buildings, partner agencies, and the safety of tenants.