with equity/affordability issues. The National Flood Insurance Program in the United States has recently shifted toward …

We examine risk preferences using the flood insurance decisions of over 100,000 households. In each contract …

number of people. Yet today most households are uninsured, or underinsured, against flood losses and may incorrectly perceive … delayed in the post-disaster period. This paper synthesizes existing research on the nature of flood risk and the housing … household balance sheets. We also consider flood risk externalities affecting the housing market more broadly …

). The 6C-4R framework is linked to the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) that rewards … communities for adopting flood risk reduction activities using illustrative examples of resilience strategies adopted by …. We conclude the paper with a case study of Cedar Rapids, Iowa that joined the CRS in 2010 following a severe flood in …