Dive Brief:

• Six proposals that include creating wetlands, building breakwaters and elevating parks have took their first steps toward fruition this week when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided they had won a competition called Rebuild By Design.
• HUD has allocated $920 million for the work, which is supposed to protect New York City areas and northern New Jersey communities from damage like that wrought by 2012's Hurricane Sandy (though it was no longer a hurricane, technically, when it hit the New York City area).
• When this will happen is a bit fuzzy, however, because HUD has to write up the legal documents to make it happen, and the teams that designed the six winners have to devise action plans for how they will bring about their solutions.

Dive Insight:

The six plans resulted from a competition begun a year ago. Each was the product of an interdisciplinary team that included architects, engineers, planners and others. The estimated costs of the six – two in New Jersey, one in Nassau County, New York, and three in New York City – range from $20 million to $335 million.