https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

"While FEMA does pay to elevate risky houses, it struggles to keep up with demand: Wetlands Watch compared the number of people on the FEMA waiting list in Norfolk with the number of houses raised in a year, and concluded that it would take 188 years to complete them all. By then, of course, waters would be far higher."