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Climate Resilience in Queens

Through a community-driven process with Make the Road New York, we’ve been learning what climate justice looks like for Queens residents by co-powering communities to turn their resilience goals into reality.

Climate change is impacting all of us, but working class, low-income, and immigrant neighborhoods and communities of color feel the impact more than others. Through a community-driven process with Make the Road New York, we’ve been learning what climate justice looks like for Queens residents by co-powering communities to turn their resilience goals into reality. The process and many of the resulting recommendations can be replicated in underrepresented communities across the region and the country.

Hurricane Ida and Housing Insecurity

In 2021, Regional Plan Association and Make the Road New York collaborated to help Queens residents and Make the Road New York members tell their stories about housing insecurity. Watch the videos in English or Spanish.

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Make Your Home Climate Resilient

Published in English and Spanish, this guide offers simple steps any household can take regardless of income, race, or immigration status to become more resilient to climate change.

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Both organizations brought together technical know-how and on the ground outreach to build capacity for underrepresented communities in Queens who are typically left out of the planning process.”

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Vanessa Barrios

Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives

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Reports

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Preventing Another Ida

Stormwater Management and Basement Apartments in Central Queens
During Hurricane Ida, extreme rain, unlicensed apartments, and underlying socioeconomic conditions resulted in death and disaster in central Queens. These strategies can help prevent that from happening again.
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Climate Action Manual

Policies for a more sustainable and resilient New York
The effects of climate change are already here and will become increasingly evident in the lives of all New Yorkers.
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Equitable Adaptation

Building climate change adaptation capacity for Make the Road NY and Central Queens
The effects of climate change will be felt by everyone, but some communities will face greater challenges than others, due to extreme impacts, or a lack of resources to address the challenges, or both.
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The Road to Equitable Adaptation

Highlights of the community process
Understanding the social, economic, and political dimensions of a community, as well as geographic and physical factors, are critical to understanding how to build climate change adaptation capacity.
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Research Areas

Energy & Environment

Location

New York