Resilient Housing is Important

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From the HSNW: Amidst Compounding Disasters, Resilient Housing Can Anchor Communities. https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20250103-amidst-compounding-disasters-resilient-housing-can-anchor-communities

“Back-to-back hurricanes wreaking havoc across huge swaths of the Southeast were yet another sign of the intensifying impacts of climate change. The nationwide shortage of reliable, affordable housing and the increasing tempo of extreme weather events are separate crises that overlap and magnify each other’s impacts.”

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  1. The sad truths are that:

    1. We do not have an adequate supply of affordable housing.
    2. Much of the housing we have – affordable or not – wasn’t built to withstand Nature’s fury.

    These are two separate problems that have nothing to do with one’s belief in “the increasing tempo of extreme events…” Here’s a unique suggestion: let’s take all of the subsidies for EVs, solar and wind, and the other Green claptrap and use them to build robust homes. Of course, we’d also have to rework most of our zoning regs so that we could actually build those homes…

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