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We're doing nothing because it's not affecting the rich.
I can almost guarantee that if category 5 hurricanes were hitting New York or DC every few months, we'd be taking action overnight.
You're right there'd be a masive government funded intitiative to build housing elsewhere that would then all somehow end up being luxury condos that no one actually lives in but rich people use as a form of wealth storage.