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Working with Vulnerable Populations for Greater Community Resilience

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Working with Vulnerable Populations for Greater Community Resilience is a Smart and Connected Communities workshop put on as part of the NSF-funded SCC-RCN project, MOHERE: Mobility, Health, and Resilience: Building Capacities and Expanding Impact.

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This workshop focused on scholarship and strategies to reduce homelessness, expand personal mobility, and lessen risks of natural disaster, especially for underserved and vulnerable communities. The overall approach was to improve resilience and health. We brought together researchers from a variety of fields spanning engineering, social sciences, health, and humanities to discuss with civic and community stakeholders the challenges cities face and develop ideas addressing three themes:

Homelessness and Housing

    • Connecting and leveraging efforts across the public/private/nonprofit sectors
    • Reducing barriers to building and accessing housing
    • Wealth building to reduce housing needs

Mobility and Equity

    • Mobility solutions that respond to climate change, natural disasters, and health
    • Equitable development and mobility
    • Vulnerable populations and transit access

Community Resilience

    • Meeting the needs of the unhoused via disaster preparedness
    • Addressing social and climate resilience through disaster preparedness
    • Building networks to support preparedness

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