According to the article, the floodwall is mainly for catastrophic floods, and won’t safeguard against neighborhood floods that occur “just about every time it rains”. It will also be positioned mainly to protect areas with high property values, leaving out areas with lower property values that were historically affected by redlining.

“If your real estate is not worth a lot of money, then the Corps can’t protect you,” Young said. “It’s as if the only thing we value as Americans when we’re spending federal money is value. And that’s really unfortunate and really problematic.”

“The only thing we value is value”. The way they conflate “value” and “monetary price” is frustrating.