[H]ow should aid be conditioned so it doesn’t become an artificial incentive to live and build in high-risk places?
A 2016 study ["The Perverse Effects of Subsidized Weather Insurance" by Omri Ben-Shahar & Kyle D. Logue, Stanford Law Review, Volume 68, March 2016] published in the Stanford Law Review pointed out what everybody in Washington quietly knows: “We call weather-related catastrophes ‘natural disasters,’ but the losses” are often due to “questionable government policies.”
... the National Flood Insurance Program, which long ago turned into a perverse subsidy for coastal development.*** As the respected insurance consultancy AIR Worldwide put it in 2015, not climate change but “the growing number and value of coastal properties is the largest factor impacting hurricane risk today.” A whopping $17 trillion in property now exists inside the U.S. storm-surge zone.
... one could even legitimately ask how many have died over the decades as a result of artificial subsidies for Americans to locate in harm’s way.
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
How Many Hurricane And Flood Deaths Are Due To US Flood Insurance Subsidies?
Posted By Milton Recht
From The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "The U.S. Is Rich, So Storms Are Worse: Donald Trump’s thought processes may be a mystery, but better hurricane policy isn’t." by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr:
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