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This explosion of growth has left many thousands of New Yorkers vulnerable to major risk and potential financial ruin from flood events, which are becoming more frequent and more extreme with a changing climate.
Before we continue, we have to answer an urgent question: Why are New Yorkers unaware that this development took place in such potentially dangerous areas, and would they really want their tax dollars and public policies to perpetuate the practice?
America’s flood risk is largely defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) working in concert with local authorities. The resulting flood maps are used by everyone from homeowners, to bankers and insurers, to local governments to try to understand their flood risk exposure. The National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 dictates that these maps should be updated every five years, but they are often out of date, and can be difficult to interpret for an individual property. Subsequent attempts at reform by Congres
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