If my math is correct that's $135,483.87 average to raise each home. Wow!

I would imagine these properties would have a very low value at their present elevation due to the flood risk. Has anyone in the know bought any or all of the properties recently?

Wow , I need a new new roof on my house , maybe 30 k to do it , we get a lot of rain here ,should I expect the Government to replace it for me ? Just asking !!

Wow , I need a new new roof on my house , maybe 30 k to do it , we get a lot of rain here ,should I expect the Government to replace it for me ? Just asking !!

Mixed feelings about this. First, the government subsidizes flood insurance. Then when the losses are high they try to mitigate risks of the underlying problem causing the losses, spending more money.

Not sure if the costs are reasonable for the amount of work or not; no idea. But I am amazed at the houses around mine in KDH that have flooded periodically over the last few years. Can't imagine dealing with that flood damage every four or five years.

I am certainly in favor of the new housing codes that require houses to be built on stilts or higher in some way even though they make the houses more expensive. Otherwise, our tax dollars will go to more flood repair in the future.

The cost of the program covers the elevation portion of flood risk mitigation along with the structural work that needs to be done to make that happen as well as the permitting, inspection, and administrative costs. The total program cost is the total program amount, not the aggregate of what is spent on construction of the 31 homes.

The size and scope of these measures often make them not affordable privately, and spending this money for mitigation protects these properties but also the insurance costs (and thus insurance premiums) for everyone in the area, especially those in AE areas.

I forget how many more are pending approval, but a lot of people applied when it opened.

Looks like most of the houses on Grand Isle in La were elevated but seems the houses were destroyed by 140 mph winds as Ida made landfall. The house were destroyed by the wind velocity that no code standards could ever expect to survive .My question is this ...does elevation increase the likely hood of more damage due to wind ? I guess if you build on a barrier island you can't win !

L I guess if you build on a barrier island you can't win !

Wow. Made me think of the hundreds of homes in CT with crumbling foundations due to bad aggregate from a quarry. Some in MA, too.

Ya know, I was born in an orphanage. Cost my parents 25$ to adopt me. (My Dad used to say he got robbed) . I'm a Marine Corps vet. I buy used stuff and make the best of it by buying low and selling high. I fix pretty much everything myself . If I don't know how I youtube it or buy a manual. I've never taken a handout from the government in my life. These young perfectly healthy people taking money from other tax paying citizens are the scum of the Earth. Fix your own goddamn house. Buy your own goddamn food and pay the same price as everyone else. I watched this woman in her 30s the other day paying for her food with a government card and go out and get into a brand new 4runner., and she was obviously an immigrant. I'm thinking...how do I get into this white privilege thing I keep hearing about? Freaking sign me up!!.... Because somebody forgot to send me some paperwork or something .

I hear ya BF. Disgusting. But that's what we get with the kind of government that rules us now.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until voters discover that they can VOTE THEMSELVES LARGESSE FROM THE PUBLIC TREASURY. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy and is always followed by a dictatorship.”
-Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)
Scottish jurist and historian and Professor of History at Edinburgh University.

We have arrived.

Your right Greg this all just started to happen after this November , get real !!!

Your right Greg this all just started to happen after this November , get real !!!

Maybe I can get Cyber Ninjas on the case now that they are done with the recount !!!

Maybe I can get Cyber Ninjas on the case now that they are done with the recount !!!