Hagerty’s Stan Gimont was mentioned in a New York Times article focused on managed retreat — using U.S. taxpayer dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones. This idea, long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new phase of climate change.
U.S. Flood Strategy Shifts to ‘Unavoidable’ Relocation of Entire Neighborhoods
“For places that can’t affordably be protected, we’ve got to look at how we prospectively relocate people,” said Stan Gimont, Senior Advisor for Community Recovery at Hagerty Consulting.
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