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Center of Excellence in Climate Resilient & Equitable Housing (CECREH)

Advancing research and policies to support climate resilience and equitable housing for underserved communities.

 
 
 
CECREH Leadership at NHERI SimCenter Roundtable
On January 22, 2025, CECREH leaders participated in the NHERI SimCenter Roundtable on Post-Disaster Housing and Household Recovery.
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About

The Center of Excellence in Climate Resilient and Equitable Housing (CECREH) aims to evaluate how specific communities have experienced recurrent and unequal exposure to extreme historical climate events. The Center's research focuses on:

  • Assessing the risk of climate change to under-served communities
  • Building capacity
  • Exploring resilient plans and policies for climate risks

Learn About Our Mission

Discover how CECREH is advancing climate resilience and equitable housing for vulnerable communities.

Research Projects

Explore our key research areas focused on climate resilience and equitable housing recovery.

Identifying Climate Risks

We assess historical and future climate threats to vulnerable populations.

  • Model historic climate risk to analyze past vulnerabilities.
  • Model future climate risk to predict upcoming challenges.
  • Identify underserved future needs to guide policy and planning.

Improving Unmet Needs Estimation

We refine methods for estimating post-disaster housing recovery needs.

  • Identify benchmarks of recovery needs for improved assessment tools.
  • Define local government capacity for equitable housing recovery.
  • Identify key factors that influence housing recovery outcomes.

Supporting Climate-Resilient Plans & Policies

We develop strategic models and policies to enhance resilience in affordable housing.

  • Analyze how local government capacity affects equitable housing recovery.
  • Enhance CDBG-DR action plans through future climate risk simulations.
  • Assess resilience-cost tradeoffs for affordable manufactured housing.

Get Involved

📢 We are recruiting PhD students for climate resilience research.

🔬 Researchers: Interested in collaboration?
Email us at CECREH@ttu.edu

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