A roadmap for resilience: Investing in resilience, reinvesting in communities

This report is designed to inspire a wide range of readers interested in addressing the challenge of creating a robust pipeline of investable resilient infrastructure projects. It captures how RE.invest reimagined the predevelopment process for resilient infrastructure to integrate early design and financing decisions and help cities make the leap from crafting a vision for resilience to generating a set of financeable large-scale projects. 

This document is organized in five main sections. The first lays out the key challenges in urban infrastructure investment and makes the case for investing in resilience. The second presents a new guide for predevelopment using principles of design thinking and systems innovation to address the barriers to resilient infrastructure investment. The third section captures the RE.invest process and the fourth provides an overview of all eight RE.invest partner city solutions. The final section provides recommendations for government officials, developers, financiers, and communities engaged in investing in resilience and reinvesting in communities.