Filmed September 5, 2014, at the ULI Urban Resilience Program’s Building the Resilient City conference in San Francisco.
Harriet Tregoning, the director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Economic Resilience, discusses the role of the federal government in creating resilient cities, how barriers to creating public/private partnerships can be overcome, and HUD’s new National Disaster Resilience Competition.
Read more about the HUD competition at HUD.gov.
Read More at Urban Land Magazine
New HUD Competition Will Reward Resilience, Not Just Recovery
A new competition for U.S. federal disaster relief funds will reward forward-thinking proposals that build resilience within communities, rather than those that rebuild in the same places using outdated methods, said HUD’s Harriet Tregoning, speaking at a ULI event.