Survey: Should We Rebuild in Dangerous Locations?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 10.26.07
It is a question that comes up again and again: People are building in places that burn regularly, that get flooded out in storms, or blown away in hurricanes. It has ever been thus, but now they are packed in so tightly that the financial losses are huge, the insurance companies bail out and the government steps in. As one commenter said in our post on Architecture for Humanity, "Maybe this is mother nature saying,"DON'T BUILD HERE!!!" It was a hard survey to build, there are so many questions, so many answers.
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