FEMA

FEMA says its new rates better reflect the risk from more intense and frequent rain and floods. The increase could make housing unaffordable for some in the most flood-prone areas.

An NPR investigation found that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sells a disproportionately high number of properties in flood zones, including more than 230 in South Florida.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development disproportionately sells homes in flood-prone areas, NPR finds. Housing experts warn that this can lead to big losses for vulnerable families.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell took over the agency in April, just before another above average hurricane season forecast and the start of another record wildfire season.

California's 2020 wildfires set a record: the most acres burned in a year. But another record was set: The second half of the wildfire season had the lowest FEMA wildfire-aid approval rate.

The people who need help the most after disasters are least able to get it from the federal government. Internal records show that FEMA knows it has a problem.

This post will be updated today, Thursday, April 8, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

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By middle of next week, the sites supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in South Florida will only offer booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. They will not be available for first shots, expected after March 23. Age caps are also dropping at the state and local level.

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