Following devastating flooding in Central Texas, experts are assessing decisionmaking around development policies in disaster-prone areas. Andrew Rumbach, a climate and communities expert at the Urban Institute, told The Texas Tribune that cities and towns often only allow cheaper housing like mobile and manufactured homes to go in places that carry a higher risk of flooding. And when a weather disaster destroys a mobile home park, he says, “the only place you can build it is right back in the flood plain.” 

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