Replace below sea level neighborhoods with parks or golf courses or other super-low density stuff that can be flooded without risk of human life. Do not rebuild high density housing in below sea level areas. 2000 dead is not a reasonable price to pay every 20 years. Public housing residents should be offered jobs in more vibrant economies around the state, or failing that in other cities that are not surrounded by high water.
Good suggestions. But those things are going to happen anyway if the Free market gets to decide.
Individuals are still waiting to hear on the code to rebuild. Do they need to raise their foundations? Will insurance cover them? Will our local government allow them to rebuild? What about our Federal Government....are they going to put further restrictions on the rebuilding process in exchange for Fed dollars. Meanwhile, residents wait and wait and wait on all these factions of governemnt to get their crap figured out. There is a logistics nightmare here that the rest of the country fails to realize and it's all tied up in local, State, and FEDERAL beauracracy, red tape, Fema, etc.