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
Additional Resources
Leadership and Committees
Leadership and Committees
Resources for Senior Officers, the Leadership Council, Transitional Board, State Reps, NACs and committees.
Councils
Councils
Providing members the opportunity to network and develop policies that benefit their areas of interest.
