Judy Huynh

Fox 13 News: A map produced by “Rebuild by Design,” a non-profit at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, shows that 93% of U.S. counties have had FEMA disasters declared since 2011, and that Florida has received $8.5 billion. Amy Chester of Rebuild by Design, says it would be extraordinarily complex to make disaster response purely […]

Yale e360: Vermont’s Washington County, which contains Plainfield and Montpelier, the state capital, ranked third in the nation in total disaster declarations from 2011 to 2023, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Rebuild by Design. Vermont, which is the 49th most populated state, ranked seventh among all states in the number of disaster declarations in

Landscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county receive a federal disaster declaration because of extreme weather. Some states, including California, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, have received dozens. The real number of congressional districts that have faced extreme weather could be even higher,

FAS: The Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a non-partisan, nonprofit science think tank dedicated to developing evidence-based policies to address national threats, today released the 2025 Heat Policy Agenda. This strategy provides specific, actionable policy ideas to tackle the growing threat of extreme heat in the United States – an issue that now affects all

The Guardian: Caleb Stratton, Hoboken’s chief resilience officer, recalls how city officials asked him to lead the rebuilding and recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy. The park, one of four planned resiliency sites in the city, was primarily paid for with infrastructure replacement grants, including roughly $10m from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Stratton said a

Harvard News: Sandy’s arrival in 2012 accelerated the search for water management solutions that combined gray and green approaches. This hybrid paradigm features in winning projects from the Rebuild by Design competition, initiated in 2013 by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Intended to foster resilience in Sandy-impacted areas through “regionally scalable” yet

Geographical: The benefits of breeding oysters and better sewage- disposal practices have already changed the course of New York Harbor life. Compared with 50 years ago, today there’s a lot of life in the harbour, along with more biodiversity and bio-productivity. This has been achieved largely thanks to putting an end to the practice of