The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers relies on a benefit-cost analysis to advance projects...
to advance projects from concept to reality often leaves lower-income communities at risk by centering property value as a decision-making factor.
This approach, firmly entrenched in federal law since as far back as 1936, converts the outcomes of a disaster into a dollar amount — regardless of who is suffering the consequence and what resources they have. By this logic, damage to a million-dollar vacation home is given more priority than a multigenerational family losing everything in a ZIP code with lower property values.
Changing this policy would bring us closer to environmental justice, but more work will be needed. At every stage of the disaster cycle, vulnerable populations face barriers to recovery and struggle to influence the programs and projects meant to help them recover.
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