The Federal Government Sells Flood-Prone Homes To Often Unsuspecting Buyers, NPR Finds

NPR, Sept. 13, 2021–Jingnan Huo, Rebecca Hersher, Tegan Wendland, Steve Newborn, Daniel Rivero
The homes HUD sells are disproportionately located in flood-prone places, compared with Zillow records of all homes sold in the United States. The agency does not fully disclose the potential costs and dangers of living in harm’s way, and some of these transactions have happened as local governments are buying out properties in the same areas to mitigate flood risk.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/13/1033993846/the-federal-government-sells-flood-prone-homes-to-often-unsuspecting-buyers-npr-