NYC Housing and Neighborhood Recovery Donors Collaborative
NYC Housing and Neighborhood Recovery Donors Collaborative

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Published: 2015

Total Pages: 42

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Coastal cities such as New York, which are at significant risk of storm-related flooding, face tremendous challenges with respect to preparedness and recovery. These challenges--associated with a range of factors, including a large and diverse population, density and type of housing, and complex transportation and energy infrastructure1--were clearly evident when Hurricane Sandy struck the northeast coast on October 29, 2012. Impacts of Sandy in NYC included the death of 43 residents, approximately 2 million people without power, damage to buildings containing 70,000 housing units, closure and evacuation of five hospitals, severely compromised transit systems, and costs to the City estimated at $19 billion. Recognizing the substantial and sustained need, 16 foundations and financial institutions came together as the NYC Housing and Neighborhood Recovery Donors Collaborative (the Donors Collaborative) and partnered with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the New York City Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Operations (HRO), the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC), and the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to support local organizations focused on medium- and long-term planning and recovery in low and moderate income communities. The Donors Collaborative funded the Center for Evaluation and Applied Research (CEAR) at The New York Academy of Medicine to conduct an evaluation of the initiative, the results of which are described in this report.

After Great Disasters
After Great Disasters

Author: Laurie A. Johnson

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Published: 2017

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781558443310

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Great natural disasters are rare, but their aftermath can change the fortunes of a city or region forever. This book and its companion Policy Focus Report identify lessons from different parts of the world to help communities and government leaders better organize for recovery after future disasters. The authors consider the processes and outcomes of community recovery and reconstruction following major disasters in six countries: China, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States. Post-disaster reconstruction offers opportunities to improve construction and design standards, renew infrastructure, create new land use arrangements, reinvent economies, and improve governance. If done well, reconstruction can help break the cycle of disaster-related impacts and losses, and improve the resilience of a city or region.

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0309459575

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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Street Design Manual
Street Design Manual

Author: New York (N.Y.). Department of Transportation

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ISBN-13: 9780615290966

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The New York City Street Design Manual provides policies and design guidelines to city agencies, design professionals, private developers, and community groups for the improvement of streets and sidewalks throughout the five boroughs. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive resource for promoting higher quality street designs and more efficient project implementation.

Housing New York 2.0
Housing New York 2.0

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Published: 2017

Total Pages: 33

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"Since Mayor de Blasio launched the Housing New York Plan in 2014, New York City has accelerated the construction and preservation of affordable housing to levels not seen in 30 years. We are on track to secure more affordable housing in the first four years of the Administration than in any comparable period since 1978. The City has tripled the share of affordable housing for households earning less than $25,000. Funding for housing construction and preservation has doubled, as have the number of homes in the City’s affordable housing lotteries each year. Hundreds of once-vacant lots have affordable homes rising on them today. Reforms to zoning and tax programs are not just incentivizing, but mandating affordable apartments—paid for by the private sector— in new development." --Page 4.

2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (6th Ed. )
2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (6th Ed. )

Author: Jill Khadduri

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1437987591

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The AHAR provides the results of local counts of people homeless on a single night in January, as well as estimates of the number, characteristics, and service patterns of all people who used residential programs for homeless people during the 2010 federal Fiscal Year (Oct. 2009-Sept. 2010). Also, for the first time, this year¿s AHAR includes info. about the use of permanent supportive housing programs and the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program. This is the first report to provide national estimates on the use of the full continuum of homeless assistance programs ¿ from homelessness prevention to homeless residential services to permanent supportive housing. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.