An often-overlooked aspect of flood-plain mapping is the fact that these maps designate stark boundaries, with households falling either inside or outside of areas designated as “flood zones.” Households inside flood zones must insure themselves against the possibility of disasters. However, costly insurance may have pushed lower-income households out of areas officially designated a flood risk and into physically adjacent areas. While not designated an official flood risk, Federal Emerge...| Liberty Street Economics
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was designed to reduce household and lender flood-risk exposure and “encourage lending.” In this post, which is based on our related study, we show that in certain situations the program actually limits access to credit, particularly for low-income borrowers—an unintended consequence of this well-intentioned program.| Liberty Street Economics
A look at high flood risk areas outside of official FEMA flood zones and how mortgage lenders adjust their lending practices in those regions.| Liberty Street Economics
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João A. C. Santos is a financial research advisor in Financial Intermediation. His research interests include financial systems design, financial intermediation, banking regulation and corporate finance. His articles have been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, among other journals.| www.newyorkfed.org
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