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  • Senior Spatial Research Analyst, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University
Neighborhood groups in Staten Island, N.Y., encouraged buyouts after Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

When homes flood, who gets FEMA buyouts and where do they go? We mapped thousands of moves and found distance and race both play a role

James R. Elliott, Rice University and Zheye (Jay) Wang, Rice University

FEMA runs the largest managed retreat program in the country, Two disaster response experts looked at the demographics of who gets those buyouts and where they go.

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