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Federal Disaster Recovery Efforts Are 'Not Sustainable,' Report Says

Route Fifty: Disaster recovery efforts across the country are not sustainable because most of them do not adequately reward communities that take steps to mitigate risk, according to a report released last month on ongoing recovery programs in Texas after Hurricane Harvey.

“The current system cannot be sustained,” states the report, titled Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Funding in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey. “The shortcomings of the system are not just a burden to disaster-prone states, which, for myriad reasons, end up rebuilding without adequately addressing their risks, but to the entire nation, which bears the financial burden of these disasters and our flawed recovery funding system.”

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