Work carried out in the UK, whilst not explicitly about failures of flood resilient housing, may provide some useful information.
For example, this report entitled: “Developing the evidence base for flood resistance and resilience: Summary Report” see http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=FD2607_7322_TRP.pdf may be useful.
This paper may also be useful: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16945/1/A5_Overcoming%20the%20barriers%20to%20installing%20property%20level%20flood%20protection%20-%20an%20overview%20of%20successful%20case.pdf
This more recent report entitled: “Evidence review for property flood resilience: Phase 2 report” see http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35489/1/UWE-report_Evidence-review-for-PFR_Phase-2-report.pdf may also be helpful.
Here is a paper that evaluate the effect of urban growth in flood‐prone areas and the role of the government to mitigate the increase in exposure. the article shows one of the most significant growths in exposure in Europe, and the low efficiency of the risk mitigation measures :
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