If a certain amount of rain falls, the nonprofit will get a payout that it could use to quickly give cash grants to affected residents.

Two hurricanes and three tropical storms each caused over a billion dollars of damage.

Many New York basement apartments flooded in September. Most of the hardest-hit residents were low-income, and most were immigrants.

A New Orleans-based journalist and homeowner reflects on Louisiana’s long road to recovery and its “care” infrastructure.

Demand shot up this summer as people hoped to get out. Then Hurricane Ida stopped some production.

Hurricane Ida’s damage underscores the need for massive investment to protect and upgrade the nation’s housing stock.

“The longer the power’s off, the more of a threat to a person’s life safety,” a former FEMA administrator says.

In many places, hospitals are running low on oxygen, which is used to treat patients with COVID and other conditions.