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Government doesn’t need to do a thing.

Assuming flood insurance prices are realistic (not propped up by government), eventually no new construction will happen because no one will approve/afford insurance.

Existing places will get cheaper / hell hole as rates keep going up.

Federal flood insurance has distorted market prices drastically in many places



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