Congress’ reforms of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 2014 continued its misguided approach to flood … insurance policy, ignoring the increased risks of floods posed by climate change and giving generous subsidies to flood … recommendations for steps Congress should take when it revisits the program in 2017. The NFIP has encouraged retention of older flood …

providing home-specific flood risk information on the behavior of home buyers in terms of their search, bidding, and purchasing … decisions. Redfin randomly assigned 17.5 million users to receive information detailing the flood risk associated with the … properties they searched for on the platform. Our analysis reveals several key findings: (1) the flood risk information …