Floodplain Buyouts and Rejections in Small Towns
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/12/vermont-floods-barre-rebuilding/
The complex dynamics of residents in small towns getting flooded and want to leave, the federal government offering to buy them out, and the town rejecting most of the buyout offers because the town cannot afford to lose the tax base and the (land for) housing stock.
And these things are increasingly happening in places that had no serious flood issues in the past.
Climate change, small town financial crises, housing crises ... all rolled into one.
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... and one wonders ...
Do most of the people in those towns "believe" that climate change is a hoax? Probably.
Do they damn well want the government to continue bailing them out of every flood? Sure.
Do they think California's urban fire victims deserve the same? Probably not. Gotta wean CA off of that government welfare.
One wonders if this society will be able to handle when whole cities start to go
