Increasing Climate Change Resilience Among HUD Grantees

Climate change is a crisis impacting communities across the United States, and Americans are already feeling its effects. While climate-related hazards have devastating effects on all communities, low- and moderate-income communities, including communities of color, are at an increased risk because their homes are more likely to be in harm’s way (e.g., located in floodplains); they are less able to prepare for, respond to, or recover from the impacts of extreme events and natural hazards; and they have relatively greater incidences of related health conditions such as respiratory disease, which can magnify the impacts of extreme events and poor local infrastructure. Working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an interdisciplinary Abt team developed tools to increase local communities’ resilience to climate change.