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Homes are flooding outside FEMA's 100-year flood zones, and racial inequality is showing through

  • Written by Kevin T. Smiley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
Homes are flooding outside FEMA's 100-year flood zones, and racial inequality is showing throughHurricane Harvey showed the racial disparities in flood damage outside Houston's 100-year flood zones.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

When hurricanes and other extreme storms unleash downpours like Tropical Storm Beta has been doing in the South, the floodwater doesn’t always stay within the government’s flood risk zones.

New research suggests...

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