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EMERGENCY RESPONSE

U Following a Con Ed plant outage inLower Manhattan, AAFE conducteddoor-to-door checks of over 1,000low-income tenants living in 500

AAFE-owned aordable apartments,delivering food, water, ashlights andnews updates to people in need.

UWorking closely with othernot-for-prot organizations and localelected ocials, AAFE collected anddistributed food to hundreds of home-bound residents. Stamade followup

visits, drawing on our lists of seniors living

in rent-regulated buildings. We support-ed relief eorts at Knickerbocker Village,a community of 4,000 residents on theLower East Side that lacked power andheat well into November.

UAAFEs real estate team conductedbuilding damage assessments and

pumped a large quantity of water from77 Avenue C, one of our aordablehousing properties ooded by seawater.e organization raised funds to replacea gas boiler and to provide 16 electricalheaters and utility subsidies to tenants.

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MOVING FORWARDAAFE is now focusing on the long-termrebuilding eorts in Coney Island, Sheeps-head Bay, and other parts of Brooklynseverely damaged by the storm. Workingclosely with Local Initiatives Support Cor-poration, Enterprise Community Partners,Brooklyn Community Foundation, Robin

Hood Foundation, and local, state, andfederal agencies, AAFE is providing HSBOUTlow-interest loans, targeted technicalassistance and one-on-one financialcounseling to homeowners and smallbusinesses. Additionally, AAFE will bereviewing claims submitted by smallcontractors for home repair jobs. Our staffwill check the general validity of work

claims, analyzing contractor track records,in an effort to pre-vent homeownervictimization by preda-tory contractors.Depending on demand, AAFE technicalassistance staff will also supporthomeowners in dealing with banks holdinginsurance payout fundsin escrow. AAFE has been working toalign its long-term work on behalf of hur-

ricane victims with the National DisasterRecovery Framework.

AAFE: MAKING A DIFFERENCEe community was extremely disoriented after the storm. We knew right awaythat aside from stang disaster relief, we needed to provide immediate assistanceto small businesses and homeowners. Small businesses in particular were especially

impacted by the loss of sales. Restaurants, for example, lost their entire inventories.Wholesale businesses and warehouses on the waterfront ooded. A low-interestloan of $30,000 made a big dierence for these small businesses that needed im-mediate assistance.

-Chris Kui, AAFE Executive Director

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