Getting Rid of FEMA Will Bankrupt Small Towns

FEMA Removal of FEMOs will fail

By Jesse M. Keenan & Yuliya pamphil

Trump is administration Preparing to delete Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), agencies aimed at the response of the nation’s disaster. This movement will have a few small people to fail to fail and speed up relocation from high-risk sites. Sever Economic disaster financial support Fema will promote taxes to states, they will guide services, and drive residents and small businesses. This “Climate Doom Loop” is a very real risk of destroying small town America.

Number It is increasing the US $ billion disasters. A new The report says FEMA He made a disaster recognition somewhere in the US every four days, on average, in 2024. Disasters have relocated a million and four million Americans a year anywhere; 20 percent of these people never return home. Some move with family and friends, others can’t return home or have nothing left to get anything left in search of a better life.

Then there are important challenges related to local governments related to households, whether they are individuals or families. Resources to adapt new students in schools and manage pressures related to domestic prices and rents with quick inflation. Chico, Calif, Orlando, Fla., After people relocated after disaster, have been important pressure of flow. After the 2018 camp, but he destroyed the town of Paradise, California, 20,000 people He moved to Chico. Sudden relocations a 21 percent spike The city activated at home prices and a homeless still fighting seven years later. Disasters are not only local events.

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California also, with one of the largest economies in the world, cannot support individual support and feed his neighbors. The state certainly cannot afford to replace the federal dollars of public support and replace the basic infrastructure of the lights and to empty the toilets. Without financial support of the female, state and local governments must borrow more money to increase taxes and privatize public infrastructures. Many small towns will be forced to scale critical services, including closing schools, libraries, parks and solid waste facilities because they can borrow and amount taxes.

Adding taxes and utility invoices are already being encouraged to move people on overlay insurance costs. The situation is so serious with natural disasters and spirals of insurance insurance in Luisiana Moody’s investor service It is concerned that labor age loss indicates that the constant and projected credit risk is a matter of state. Wealthy states like Florida also had significant credit risks without the financial support of the female, especially as tax rolls disappear Property values ​​in high-risk counties. Florida income is nothing more than a few catastrophic hurricanes, which would affect the growth of the population. Florida already lives more death than birthsAnd his future is related to people who move to the sun.

Natural risks and climate-attributed extreme events are mixing ruin to communities and local economies through the sunshine. People initially went there in warm weather, but has focused on the real reason for regional growth since the 90s Available supply of affordable housing. Last Research Some people have shown that they have started moving away from the sun, especially retires and heaters where they want to plant the long-term roots. These people are sensibilities for unexpected disaster costs and those who are eating in hard insurance wealth, as they are trying to retire or build families. When people move, they take their tax tickets with them.

Life costs certainly does not risk being greater than sun and beyond, and without female costs are not achieved. The female does not only help to coordinate recovery. The agency also invests in risk reduction infrastructure and establishes the rules offered by the forecast and maintains the costs of obtaining insurance policies and mortgages. FEMA offers subsidies and cheap loans for infrastructure projects that keep schools safe and hospitals in millions of millions. Without female, the Municipal Bonds of Wall Street and the mortgage investor will decide who rebuild and who will leave.

Local governments that start long processes for reconstruction will still face the erosion of its inhabitants and their economy. Retrieval costs, toxic cleaning and infrastructure recovery are very important Five counties caused by disasters must borrow money and establish public funding cuts While waiting for female support. These events drain so many cash Los Angeles City Council After all, he had a negative credit approach to his credit agency lately, which has the ability to meet the duties of the city.

For some small towns and regions, the only way to move forward can be defaulted to its debt and may be a failure file. After the camp after paradise The upgrade agency eventually defaulted In 2023 in debt. Research tells us that the following Fema support help has an important role Prevent default defaults. According to the Token itself, municipal failures after disasters are nothing new. Galveston, Tex., Filed for bankruptcy 1900. After a major hurricane in the year. Failure would have a detrimental impact of living rooms and small business and small business cost. Many small towns are options for deleting maps, physically and economically.

Trump Administration and Congress should reform and invest in FEA and invest in inflation, promoting staff class houses and reducing government. The experience of the female experience should be invested in the ability of the community and small towns that define Americans. One thing is to rename map places, but another is eliminating places where people call home.

This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views indicated by the author or authors are not necessarily American scientific.