As weather gets wilder and less predictable, the demand for resilient housing that can withstand the force of a hurricane or tornado is increasing.
The Philadelphia Inquirer story reports that the certification created by the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety in 2008 to designate homes built according to construction standards enabling it likely to survive hurricane-force winds was given to just 1,638 houses in 2014. That figure jumped to 11,031 homes last year and increased to 12,530 during the first four months of 2019.
“When the consumer has a different perception of the risk, it changes the demands they make on homebuilders,” says Roy Wright, leader of the Institute and a former head of risk mitigation for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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