* > Proceeding to read the article, over a decade the Army Corps of Engineers raised hundreds of miles of levees. If this were a thread about how the US can't complete big projects any more, that alone would be a ray of sunshine.

Unfortunately even that sunshine requires applying sunscreen as it reminds of their calculations that don’t favor helping the most people.

Still, even if the [Army Corp of Engineers] approach is designed to avoid picking winners and losers, it ends up doing so anyway, favoring wealthier neighborhoods. "It's also going to be [choosing] more valuable businesses," Kling says. "More valuable real estate."

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/688786177/how-federal-disaste...