NJ has new measures to protect homebuyers' and renters' flood risk
The measures include flood history disclosure forms and flood zone mapping tools to aid homeowners and renters.
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The measures include flood history disclosure forms and flood zone mapping tools to aid homeowners and renters.
Rising risk of floods is hollowing out counties across the United States — creating abandoned pockets in the hearts of cities, a new report has found. These abandoned areas tend to map onto regions of historic disinvestment — and flight out of them is accelerating, according to the findings published in Nature Climate Change. In cities across…
More than 40% of United States residents live in such regions.
More than 7 million California residents live in an area where they are at risk of flood, officials said — and many don't even know it.
The recent report showed that portions of the New York City (NYC) metropolitan area could suffer from increased local flood risk due to concerns about sea level rise. Read here.