The small riverside town of Mosby, Missouri, is disappearing one house at a time.
In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, Tammy Kilgore, right, talks to her neighbor Betty Cazzell after Kilgore's home was demolished in Mosby, Mo. Kilgore accepted a $45,000 voluntary buyout offer to leave her flood-prone home of 38 years and has moved to a nearby community.
Similar buyout programs have played out in numerous communities ravaged by floods and hurricanes. Over the past three decades, federal and local governments have spent more than $5 billion to buy tens of thousands of vulnerable properties across the U.S., according to an Associated Press analysis. As Kilgore climbed into the excavator, longtime neighbor Betty Cazzell watched somberly from across the chain-link fence where the two would often chat. Cazzell, 86, opted against applying for a buyout. She didn’t want the hassle of leaving a town where she spent all but 10 years of her life.
But for some, such as 83-year-old Elmer Sullivan, the offer just wasn’t enough to afford a house somewhere else. Mosby’s revenue is likely to shrink as properties once on the tax rolls become empty plots owned by the city, Mayor Harlin Clements said. The terms of the buyouts prohibit future development.
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