11/12/2025Bridgeport’s South End Revival Continues with GroundbreakingPatch: Two significant Bridgeport projects got underway Monday with the official groundbreaking of Phase II of the Windward Apartments and t…
11/10/2025Electric School Buses and Waterfront Parks Get Environmental Bond Act BoostThe City: The City University of New York will use $50 million in Bond Act funds to install a geothermal system at Brooklyn College, add sol…
11/10/2025Watch: Groundbreaking For More South End Housing, Resilience ProjectOnly In Bridgeport: The start of two significant Bridgeport projects: the construction of the Winward Apartments Phase II and the launch of …
11/04/2025Trump’s FEMA disaster aid approvals fell largely along party lines in October 2025Snopes: Rebuild by Design, a project of New York University, found 99.5% of congressional districts include a county that has received a maj…
10/30/2025Atlas of Accountability: County-Level Federal Disaster Declarations (2011-2024)Between 2011 and 2024, 99.5% of congressional districts experienced at least one federally declared major disaster due to extreme weather, a…
10/29/2025Activists Demand Climate Resiliency On Superstorm Sandy AnniversaryJersey Shore Online: Rebuild by Design New Jersey Program Manager Hana Katz discussed innovative resiliency projects. The Mount Holly reside…
10/29/202513 years after Sandy, city reshapes its waterfrontCrains New York: Staten Island was among the hardest-hit areas of the city during the 2012 storm, causing $16 worth of damage and lost econo…
10/29/2025Vermont’s lost FEMA fundingVermont Daily Chronicle: “With a population of 648,000 people, Vermont has historically relied on federal dollars for disaster response fund…
10/28/2025Melissa strikes Jamaica as New Jersey remembers Superstorm Sandy 13 years agoNBC Philadelphia: "Anything that was in the planning process, any projects that were being implemented are paused until further notice," Han…
10/28/2025FEMA Funding at Risk for Vermont’s Rural Communities After Trump Denies Disaster Declaration RequestDaily Yonder: Between 2011-2024, rural counties in Vermont had among the greatest occurrences of federally-declared extreme weather disaster…
10/28/2025South Bronx Advocates Urge City’s Next Mayor To Prioritize Parks FundingBronx: Invest in heat and flood mitigation redevelopment of local open spaces like Pulaski Park which are among the city’s most vulnerable, …
10/20/2025NJ Speaker Series: Under 30 and Over It!Join Rebuild by Design for our New Jersey event series, offering an in-depth look at the updated findings from the NJ Atlas of Disaster, alo…