Disaster Recovery
Resources For Consumers
- Rebuilding and Repairing Your Home After a Natural Disaster – A customizable flyer to share with your community.
- Safety, Effectiveness Key Issues for Flood Damage Clean Up – Use this sample consumer article to share tips with homeowners on how to safely clean up after their home suffers flood damage.
- HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research: Disaster Recovery Toolkit – This is a link to a HUD toolkit with downloadable resources, reports and guides to aid in the disaster recovery process.
- Federal Disaster Assistance – Find information, support, services, and a means to access and apply for disaster assistance.
Case Studies
- Post-Disaster Community Outreach Case Studies – These case studies profile four HBA leaders across the country who faced natural disasters in their hometowns. They discuss their disaster recovery plans and efforts; how they managed the HBAs involvement; the challenges they faced; and what the experience taught them. HBAs confronted with similar circumstances are encouraged to use this document as a community outreach and public relations resource.
Community Rebuilding
- Complying with the EPA Lead Paint Rule During Emergency Renovations
- How Home Builders Can Help Their Communities Rebuild After a Disaster
- Home Building Industry Disaster Relief Fund – Learn about NAHB’s charitable organization created to assist areas affected by disaster and facilitate the rebuilding of communities.
Business Continuity
- Small Business Administration: Emergency Preparedness – This website offers small businesses guidance on how to develop an emergency preparedness and disaster relief plan and how to recover after a natural disaster.
- HUD Multifamily Emergency / Disaster Guidance for all HUD-insured and/or assisted properties affected by a Presidentially declared disaster (Chapter 38 of HUD Handbook 4350.1 Multifamily Asset Management and Project Servicing).
- Property Insurance and Disaster Recovery
Cleanup/Recovery Safety
- NAHB Toolbox Talk: Disaster Recovery (video and fact sheet)
- Protect Yourself While Removing Debris
- Flood Response
- Cleanup Hazards
- Keeping Workers Safe during Hurricane Cleanup and Recovery
- Decontamination
- Using Portable Generators Safely
- Rodents, Snakes and Insects
- Mold
Reconstruction Safety
- Complying with the EPA Lead Paint Rule During Emergency Renovations
- Demolition Safety
- Construction Hazards
- Construction Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Electrical Safety
- Trenching and Excavation Safety
- Portable Ladder Safety
- Protecting Workers from Heat Stress
