Breaking news from New York City today: the team of Swedish firm White Arkitekter has won the two-phase "For a Resilient Rockaway" (FAR ROC) design competition at the Arverne East site in the Rockaways. [...] The winning team also included members from ARUP and Gensler. — bustler.net
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This is all great. Cool proposal, nice designs, glad to see we're trying to think about building sensitively along the shore.
But I'm leaning more towards thinking we can't. With the Biggert-Waters Act of 2012 it's become impossible to insure any house along the coast. Which means the only people who can live along the coast are people who can afford to lose their house and rebuild it again *without insurance*.
Which means only exceptionally rich people get to enjoy the coasts of our country, and I don't support that at all.
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