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MIT architecture professor Miho Mazereeuw’s work on disaster resilience focuses on plans, people, and policies, well as technology and design, to prepare for the future.

The 2022 MIT Leventhal City Prize is awarded to Drawing Together, a collaboration between MIT and New York City nonprofit Green City Force. The project will train young people for careers with a sustainability focus while they serve local public housing communities.

In the Boston region, disaster housing is a reality we have to continue to prepare and plan for together. We face the potential for major events or natural disasters that could result in catastrophic damage to housing infrastructure in the region. This makes disaster housing one of the focal points in preparing for and responding to threats. Climate change increases the City and region’s exposure to vulnerabilities that we face from various events and disasters. Boston’s dense urban area makes for a complex planning process.

The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) has awarded 20 projects a total of $5 million over two years in its first-ever 2022 MCSC Seed Awards program. The winning projects are led by principal investigators across all five of MIT’s school

On April 11, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as quickly as possible.