For Immediate Release: June 11, 2008
Media Contact: Marketing and Communication Department
Community in the Aftermath Series Launches
The Alternative Housing Pilot Program: Building a Framework for Future Disaster Recovery
WHAT
Continuing its role as a major forum on design and disaster recovery, the National Building Museum, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), launches a new, three-year lecture series Community in the Aftermath on June 19th. Community in the Aftermath focuses on lessons learned from providing post-disaster housing through the Alternative Housing Pilot Program (AHPP) and is a forum to present results from extensive evaluation by HUD and FEMA. The inaugural program explores critical issues and objectives of the AHPP, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. AHPP is a grant competition to develop more useful, readily available, and culturally appropriate post-disaster housing for Hurricane Katrina-ravaged areas.
Community in the Aftermath is sponsored by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in partnership with the National Building Museum.
FEMA does not endorse the NBM or any other nonfederal entity, product, or service.
WHO
David Garratt, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Disaster Assistance Directorate, FEMA;
Randy Kinder, AHPP Project Officer, FEMA;
Kevin Neary, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation, and Monitoring Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD;
Todd Richardson, Director, Program Evaluation Division, Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD.
WHERE
National Building Museum
401 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001 (Judiciary Square Metro, Red Line)
WHEN
Thursday, June 19, 2008
6:30 – 8:00 pm: The Alternative Housing Pilot Program: Building a Framework for Future Disaster Recovery
$12 Museum members and students; $20 non-members. Prepaid registration required.
Walk-in registration based on availability. To register, visit www.nbm.org or call 202.272.2448.
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