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    Nashville's Answer To Flood-Proofing Homes? Tear Them Down

    Since 2010, Nashville has bought 261 flooded homes and hopes to acquire 90 more. The city offers homeowners fair market value, then demolishes the houses and returns the land to a more natural state.
    by Blake Farmer Sep 08, 2017 2 minutes
    DeeDee Brickner recently upgraded the pool liner at this one-story ranch she owns and rents to tenants. With this latest flood, she's ready to hand over the keys to the city.

    This season's massive hurricanes will force communities in Texas and Florida to ask a tough question: How do you make sure homes and businesses never flood again? Since its own devastating flood in 2010, Nashville has embraced one answer: offer to tear them down.

    It would seem a welcome way out of disaster, but it's not always an easy sell.

    "If the government had just given me

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