In interviews with residents and builders after disasters from Hawaii to Colorado to Puerto Rico, experts found people often overestimated the cost of building back better. Read from CU Boulder鈥檚 Abbie Liel and University of Notre Dame's Susan Ostermann on The Conversation.
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