states. so obviously they may not have been telling everybody about the dangers of paradise but for many people it did turn out to be paradise. and right now, this city, cape coral, it is the number one riskiest flood place. in 2020 it was ranked number one. it made the national top 15 for projected population growth at the same time, and one of the challenges is that a lot of people move. i moved to florida, you know, back in 1997. lived there for 14 years. the things you don t think about. i got to get hurricane insurance. as soon as you get down there, you know there are hurricanes, you need to be there for a while to understand you need flood insurance because so much of florida from the keys to cape coral is barely above sea water. it s feet above sea water. you can be in miami, just a good rain it will flood. how dangerous is it for developers to have free rein to build houses that attract people in these places where they re not doing the mitigation to make sure it s safe?
Congress's involvement in insurance in the hurricane-prone Southdistorts the markets and forces us all to subsidize the risk ofthose who choose to live there.