By Xander Peters — In the wake of Hurricane Ike, engineers have been crafting a $34 billion plan to protect the city. Will it work when the next disaster arrives?

By Duncan Nielsen — The wealthy have a habit of creating an unwelcome atmosphere on sandy stretches abutting their properties. The problem is that everyone is actually still invited.

By Amanda Abrams — Could climate chaos sink the US real estate market?

By Jake Bittle — Wealthy homeowners will escape flooding. The middle class can’t.

By Thomas Frank — An investigation by POLITICO's E&E News reveals systemic favoritism toward wealthy and white people in a federal program that lifts homes above rising floodwaters.

By Darryl Fears and Lori Rozsa — As FEMA prepares to remove subsidies from its flood insurance, a new assessment says 8 million homeowners in landlocked states are at risk of serious flooding because of climate change

By Thomas Ankersen — … On most U.S. shorelines, the public has a time-honored right to “lateral” access. This means that people can move down the beach along the wet sand between high and low tide — a zone that usually is publicly owned. Waterfront property owners’ control typically stops at the high tide line or, in a few cases, the low tide line.

By Laura Lightbody, Brian Watts — Action needed from Congress to reform outdated policies and reduce flood impacts

By Andrew W Kahrl — America's beaches are for everyone. Let's keep them that way.