June, 2019

As part of the Housing Pre-Planning Toolkit project, Larisa Ovalles led the first ‘Basic level’ workshop with the Toa Baja Municipality in Puerto Rico. We were joined by ResilientSEE-PR’s Yanel de Angel and Maria Roldón, along with the Toa Baja Disaster Housing Working Group who will be working together to complete the Toolkit process. The workshop facilitated discussions and conversations around long-term resilient planning and disaster housing. The aim was to set common objectives in housing policy, identify local hazards and vulnerabilities, and introduce federal disaster and hazard mitigation assistance programs.