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Home My WebLink About081523 Housing as Disaster_ Community ResiliencyJoin us at the All County Picnic + Enter the Raffle! <https://housingsolutionsnetwork.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38123e1ad2608f9c4e51e6660&id=3c67627e8a&e=cbc38cef46> A Special Newsletter about the All County Picnic To stay up to date on all the happenings, make sure you like and follow us on Instagram <https://housingsolutionsnetwork.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38123e1ad2608f9c4e51e6660&id=070fa254dd&e=c bc38cef46> + Facebook <https://housingsolutionsnetwork.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38123e1ad2608f9c4e51e6660&id=0db1e7ab65&e=cbc38cef46> . A Letter on Housing as Community Resiliency from Willie Bence, Jefferson County’s Director of Emergency Management To the Residents of Jefferson County, Here at the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management, we focus on planning for worst case scenarios and major catastrophes, both manmade and natural. Our work is centered on planning and preparing for major earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, and many other scenarios where our community may experience major disruptions to our day to day lives. In preparing for these catastrophic events, we often talk of your traditional emergency preparedness activities - building emergency kits stocked with enough food and water for thirty days, getting trained in first aid, and writing emergency plans. However, often lost in these conversations is a key misunderstanding of the concepts of resilience and vulnerability. Resilience, by definition, is the ability of an entity to effectively "bounce back" after a disruptive event. Vulnerabilities on the other hand, are things that increase one’s susceptibility or level of risk to the impacts of hazards. While the preparedness activities mentioned earlier are certainly important steps towards building resilience at the individual and community levels, there are issues we deal with on a day-to-day basis that are not only disasters for the individuals affected, they also impact our overall community's vulnerability, reducing our resilience and the means we have to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. One such aspect of resilience/vulnerability is that of housing security. Renters tend to have fewer means to become prepared, in part because of their dependency on the fluctuations of the rental market and frequently relocating more than homeowners. A recent study out of the University of Ohio showed that, even after accounting for factors such as income and education, renters and those who were behind on rent, mortgage, or utilities, scored lower on a scale measuring their preparedness level. Housing status also interacts with other factors, like your poverty-level or being a minority, that exacerbates Vulnerability. Never mind the fact that, simply put, many housing issues are disasters of their own for the individuals involved. In emergency management, we plan for and support operations of mass care disaster sheltering when people have been displaced from their homes after a wildfire, earthquake, or tsunami. But the simple fact remains that people are being displaced from their homes every single day, many due to the lack of affordable or attainable housing - a slow moving disaster occurring before our very eyes, in our own community. Finally, housing insecurity additionally affects our collective ability to respond to disasters large and small. Critical workers in this community across a variety of sectors, from healthcare to infrastructure to first responders, often cite housing as a primary barrier towards staying in our community long-term. Thus, not only are many folks in the area struggling to build resilience themselves, we lack critical resources to support them, with housing as a common denominator. Jefferson County government declared a housing emergency in 2017, and the issue has only since gotten worse. I would like to encourage everyone, on top of building your family's emergency kit and writing your personal emergency plan, to think about ways we can build community resilience, and reduce our own vulnerability, through the lens of housing security. Preparing Together, <https://dim.mcusercontent.com/cs/38123e1ad2608f9c4e51e6660/images/dcd10616-6b68-96da-c351-f56e1dc75c0c.png?w=181&dpr=2> Author’s Bio: Willie Bence is the current Director of Emergency Management with Jefferson County. In his career, Willie has responded to large national disasters like Superstorm Sandy in NYC, wildfires in Colorado, and tropical storms in Florida, amongst many others. <https://dim.mcusercontent.com/cs/38123e1ad2608f9c4e51e6660/images/897f5946-151c-78c1-179d-726cac1c2dad.png?w=564&dpr=2> Rainsticks for a Housing Drought HSN will be raffling off a rainstick handcrafted in Port Townsend by local artist David Erickson at the All County Picnic. Won’t make it to the picnic but want to purchase a raffle ticket today? Enter “Raffle” in the notes at time of check out! 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