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Story by The Washington Post. SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Climate change and its most extreme consequences are pushing up the price of homes throughout much of the American West, as fires and flooding carve into existing housing stock and restrict the amount of land suitable for future building. Over several harrowing weeks in October 2017,…

Story by NBC News. Five months since the deadly wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, providing housing for displaced residents continues to be the biggest challenge facing the community’s rebuilding efforts. After the Fire CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Meet the Press NOW to share the latest developments.  

Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Dasha Burns on NBC News Now to discuss After the Fire USA’s delegation to Maui to aid in recovery efforts.  

Story by npr. NPR’s Pien Huang speaks to Jennifer Gray Thompson, founder and CEO of After the Fire USA, about what to expect from long-term recovery after a wildfire.   PIEN HUANG, HOST: I want to stay on that last point that we heard from Greg about the plans to rebuild those communities that were…

Story by AP news. Thompson said Maui is one of the “scariest opportunities for gentrification” that she’s seen because of “the very high land values and the intense level of trauma and the people who are unscrupulous who will come in to try to take advantage of that.”   Kim Cuevas-Reyes, a 38-year-old cellphone store…

Story by NBC Bay Area. “They’re very creative, they’re very innovative,” said Jennifer Gray Thompson of the Bay Area fire response group After The Fire. “And then to see this amazing wildfire resistant, really climate resistant go up here, really the most impressive example I’ve seen in six years of doing this work.”   Above…

Story by The Sonoma Index-Tribune. As a lifelong resident of the valley and local leader in disaster relief from the 2017 fires, Rep. Thompson believes Gray Thompson “is emblematic of the strength of our survivor community and has been instrumental in helping fire survivors recover and rebuild.”   Rep. Mike Thompson from California’s 4th District…

Story by Forbes. From the Editor Gray Thompson, a leader in the recent field of megafire disasters across the American West, is the CEO of After The Fire, a nonprofit organization supporting wildfire-affected communities. Thompson’s path to leadership took several turns. She was a high school dropout, a homeless teenager and a poverty-stricken single mom.…

Story by NBC Bay Area. “Our goal is they won’t have to begin at the beginning,” Thompson said. “We can actually shorten that pain period between actual event and how you rebuild.”   Amid the crumpled, twisted remains of the Plumas County town of Greenville, few people stirred, other than the constant caravans of disaster…