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“Imagine
being able to access data that used to cost a small fortune for big companies.
Now
people can access state of the art flood model information for free at
FloodFactor,” said Jeremy Porter, chief research officer of the
nonprofit First Street Foundation.
“We built a
model partnering with more than 80 universities and experts looking at storm
surge, tidal flooding, precipitation and riverine flooding.”
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The First Street Foundation has compiled invaluable data to create FloodFactor.com — a powerful free tool for folks to see historic, present and future risks to the home, business, farm, etc.
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Realtors Property Resource® (RPR®) a nationwide, property database available only to members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, delivers parcel-level data to REALTORS® to share with their clients and customers, assisting them in the process of buying, selling or leasing of both residential and commercial real estate.
RPR recently announced a partnership to provide REALTORS® with access to the ClimateCheck platform, which started mid-April 2022.
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The feature, powered by ClimateCheck, displays the risk of flood, heat, fire, drought and storms by individual address, zip code and city.
A Redfin report
found nearly 50 percent who plan to move in the next year are relocating
because of extreme temperatures or natural disasters and 80 percent of those
surveyed are hesitant to buy a home in places with increased natural disasters.
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Whether it is learning the information needed to urge public officials to invest in resiliency, or simply finding out what the risks are to your individual property — and which combination of insurance and construction can mitigate a huge loss — individuals need data.
Redfin,
the national real estate brokerage with a huge online presence that allows
homeowners to get an estimate of exactly what their home is worth, while
accessing tons of other free data, has added climate risk information to its
home listings.
COVERING PLANNING, URBAN DESIGN, MOBILITY, TRAVEL, PHOTOGRAPHY, ADVOCACY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND MORE
This blog started a decade ago.
Social media
was big, but not nearly as big as it is now.
We might not
even have owned a modern smart phone when we first started marrying images to
words within a template on Blogger.
We have had more than 333,333 unique visitors to these pages.
We have
gotten to share advocacy writing on planning, urban design and mobility from
Planning Magazine, On Common Ground Magazine, Strong Towns, CNU Public Square
and the Miami New Times to name a few.
We have
shared disability-positive profiles and research stories from United Spinal,
New Mobility, Designs 4 Living and a host of online publications.
In 2022, we have posted links to more than a half dozen podcast appearances.
We’ve also
posted live from key speeches given to packed audiences at the American
Planning Association National Conference in San Diego and the International
Making Cities Livable event in Paris.
Each year,
we post more than 400 high quality urbanism photos taken from our extensive
travels to promote Universal Design.
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NOAA’s Adam Smith said one silver lining from the extremes of 2021 was that large-scale, years-long flood mitigation investment was tested and did well.
The $15-billion levee and pumping system that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
built around New Orleans was tested by Hurricane Ida, and the city fared better
than areas outside it with older levees and no mitigation infrastructure.
“California recently decided to invest heavily in hardening its power grid to mitigate wildfire impacts.
This is an investment that will almost certainly pay off in the years ahead given the increased intensity of wildfire seasons,” he said.
“The Texas power grid issues from the mid-February 2021 cold wave was also an
example where additional resilience of the power system would have saved
billions of dollars in damage.
