What We're Fighting For
A Plan
Establish regional, state-wide, and city-wide planning frameworks for advancing comprehensive resilience; integrate resilience into how and where we build infrastructure and where we retrofit or relocate.
Funding and Jobs
Establish reliable, robust long-term sources of federal, state, and local funding for flood resilience and green, well-paying jobs; leverage investments toward integrated flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and workforce development that puts our region to work building a resilient future for our communities.
And An Approach That Is
Transparent
Pass enforceable laws to help us plan for our futures and build awareness about risk, like flood risk disclosure. It’s our right to know. Ensure that laws, policies, and programs that are designed to protect our communities are implemented to the fullest and most equitable extent.
Equitable and Just
Improve the resilience of public and private housing developments and infrastructure while building new high-quality public and affordable housing on higher ground. Develop a forward-looking and proactive approach to effectively reducing risk. Consider need and equity in distribution of funds, with a goal of 40 percent of climate resilience funding toward frontline communities. Ensure retreat and relocation strategies are viable and just.
Green and Blue
Invest and plan for ecological resilience, monitoring, and restoration so that our communities, wildlife, and ecosystems are healthy for generations to come. Prioritize natural and nature-based solutions to climate change and sea-level rise, especially those that restore floodplains and ecosystems and provide public access and open space, in addition to delivering climate risk reduction.
