26 Feb For this assignment, you will take on the role of someone working in the city planner’s office
For this assignment, you will take on the role of someone working in the city planner’s office. You have been tasked with developing one component of your office’s application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to attain funding from the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program. Your part of the document is the justification for focusing the funds on low-income communities within your city.
This proposal allows you to apply existing research findings to a practical perspective. This assignment will also provide an opportunity to justify requests for funding, which is an important skill to develop since it is a relatively common occurrence within government agencies.
In your written proposal,
· Explain the relationship between disaster vulnerability and socioeconomic status according to this week’s readings.
· Identify three reasons low-income communities might have increased vulnerability to disaster consequences.
· Each of these reasons should have scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources for support.
· Discuss how each of your three reasons translates to the need for disaster mitigation and resilience funding for low-income communities.
The Proposal to Support Increased Resilience Measures in a Low-Income Community
· must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages.
· must include a separate title page with the following:
· title of paper
· Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
· student’s name
· name of institution
· course name and number
· instructor’s name
· due date
· must utilize academic voice
· must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
· must use at least six scholarly, peer-reviewed sources from the required readings.
