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This issue brief discusses how to ensure equal access to disaster response and recovery efforts, offering specific policy recommendations that would help ensure that the most vulnerable communities and populations receive the support they need.

Hawaii’s communities are highly vulnerable to extreme natural disaster events. Disaster recovery preparedness activities set the stage for recovery from a disaster event informed by and contributing to a county’s planning and implementation framework.

This report was presented as a statement before the Committee on Homeland Security. It discusses, among other things, FEMA’s progress and challenges related to disaster resilience, response, recovery, and workforce management.

The 2019 CoreLogic® Storm Surge Report provides an annual evaluation of the number of single-family and, new this year, multifamily residential homes in the United States that are vulnerable to storm surge in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Basin. All

This report addresses challenges elderlies and people with disabilities faced during three sequential hurricanes–Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and how FEMA addressed them, and the extent to which FEMA has implemented its new approach to disability integration.

This document is a Recovery Action Plan issued by the City of Panama City after devastating Hurricane Michael.

This brief is based on a Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance Post Event Review Capability (PERC) study analyzing the 2017 flooding in Houston following Hurricane Harvey. This document has been produced as summary pieces of key lessons learned regarding the

This report identifies how Americans understand the correlation between disasters and housing displacement and how these situations will be handled. The report provides an overview of how Americans (and Californians) view their current state of disaster