White communities prefer to risk repeat flooding rather than move to safer but more diverse neighborhoods
Distribution of owner–occupant FEMA HMGP participants, 1990–2017. Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd654 Even after suffering flood damage, homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to accept higher risk of disaster repeating itself than relocate to areas with more racial diversity and less flood risk, according to new research from Rice University. James Elliott