(Repost from Affordable Housing Fianance July 12, 2021 8 Must-Haves for Resilient Home Design| Housing Finance Magazine) As hurricane season gets underway in the Atlantic and extreme heat waves batter the West, an obvious truth is worth repeating: The fundamental purpose of housing is to provide shelter from the natural…

My grandparents were part of the exodus of emigres into the United States from the Pale of Settlement, which was a term that referred to the region of Jewish communities or “shtetls” that stretched over the Ukraine, Russia, and Poland. Persecuted politically and restricted economically, thousands of Jews emigrated from…

Climate Change is expensive — the U.S. has experienced over $400 billion in weather and climate disaster costs since 2014[1] and climate experts warn the costs to the national and local economies and to households are only rising[2]. The challenges inflicted on communities by storms, fires and extreme precipitation and…

2020 is on track to be the hottest and most volatile decade in modern times. 3m acres+ of land is burning out of control in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado; Iowa and Utah have suffered calamitous wind storms damaging homes and agriculture; and at present Hurricane Sally bounds towards New…