August 2025
We hope you are enjoying the last moments of summer. An extra long update this month:
Welcome Case Study Adapt!
The Resiliency Company is welcoming a new fiscally sponsored project. Case Study: Adapt (CSA) is a revival of the iconic mid-century Case Study House Program, reimagined for a world with increasing weather disasters and hazards. In response to the wildfires in Los Angeles, CSA brought together ten of the city’s top architecture firms to design resilient homes for 16 families who lost homes in the fires. Coverage of their work will be featured in a series of pieces covered in Architecture Digest.
CSA expands Resiliency Co’s capabilities by adding a unique blend of architecture, design, and narrative strategy to our existing focus areas. Their work is complementary with our efforts to scale adaptation solutions and shape public narratives, while bringing distinctive expertise that we do not currently have in our core programs.
Rebuilding Homes to be Resilient. We are growing our conviction that this effort is a massive opportunity to be the first market for resilient home lending across the country. I’ve attached a sample teaser deck that highlights the business case for this work, positioning LA as our first market.
Our near-term goal remains laser focused on making LA a wild success and our progress this month comes from embedding with the building and design community to influence architectural plans to be built to the IBHS Wildfire Prepared standard where we have…
Built product comparison spec list for materials for IBHS standard, work that will hopefully be represented in a dedicated Home Depot “look book” for builders.
Met with 12 homebuilder groups to encourage IBHS spec home design options, representing potentially 6,000 homes
Partnering directly with organized clusters of rebuilds like with Habitat for Humanity and Homebound.
We have also been working hard on securing funds through partnering with existing financial institutions for direct lending and also raising capital from funders. We have:
Built a pipeline of funders
Responded to RFPs for homeowner grants
Built an advisory and draft of grants workflow playbook
Onboarding with catalytic fund platforms - Prime Coalition, CREO, and CapShift
Met with 8 LA-based financial institutions to offer resilient home loan products
Started building MVP prototype for homeowners to calculate their Resilient Delta and apply for financing
I had someone meet me and say, “oh, I keep seeing The Resiliency Company everywhere!”. Here is a round-up of some of the ways we’re creating gravitational pull:
Abby published a piece with New America
Abby was interviewed for Doug Parsons’ America Adapts podcast called Innovations in Climate Risk & Insurance
Our Climate Risk Playbook with JLL and 40 other partners will have a dedicated session with the commercial real estate leaders at NYCW
Speaking at the Marsh McLennan Symposium on Climate, Resilience and Insurability in the US alongside Barney Schauble and Alison Smart
Speaking at the After the Fire Summit on A Mandate for the Future: A Climate Resilient Rebuild
Co-hosting The Adaptation Forum on Monday 9/22 at NY Climate Week
Probable Futures published an insightful piece, Is the Future Insurable?
Best,
Abby
