HOUSING RESILIENCE

CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES

“People don’t realize… the devastation,” Ian Giammanco, Ph.D., the managing director of Standards & Data Analytics and lead research meteorologist at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), said, speaking in terms of loss of all household appliances, articles and one-of-a-kind mementos—along with living in cramped, substandard replacement housing because rebuilding can take many months.

“For those who don’t experience it, it’s out of sight, out of mind. 

But believe me, when you talk to people going through the trauma of losing your home, your neighbors, your community—you don’t want to go through what they have.”