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Zac Taylor

@zacjtaylor.bsky.social

Climate adaptation, finance, and the built environment. Floridian in the Netherlands. Assistant Professor, TU Delft. Academic Lead, Resilient Delta. Co Lead, Red&Blue: Real Estate Development & Building in Low Urban Environments www.redblueclimate.nl

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Zac Taylor @zacjtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

New PhD: "From Housing Inequality to Sustainable, Inclusive and Affordable Housing Solutions" Part of a pan-EU consortium and based at KU Leuven in the REFCOM research group of Manuel Aalbers. As a past research group member, I can wholly endorse the team. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Zac Taylor @zacjtaylor.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Happy Friday, happy publication day. Excited to share new work with Sarah Knuth. We explore the premise and pitfalls PACE finance for climate adaptive retrofitting in Florida, paying special attention to risks of unaffordability and financial breakdown. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida

Amidst growing concerns about climate risks to the U.S. housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting cris....

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Zac Taylor @zacjtaylor.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

For the third time in seven years, I'm preparing to talk about urban climate risk a major academic conference while my hometown is under threat from a major hurricane. Talk about uncomfortable knowledge.

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Zac Taylor @zacjtaylor.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Really looking forward to RGS next week! Let's catch up (or meet). You can find me in two sets of sessions. On Friday from 2-5PM, I'm co-hosting (w/ Savannah Cox and Stephen Collier) a session on finance, risk rating, and "changing urban riskscapes" -- details below.

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