Dive summary:

• Elizabeth English hopes that a Department of Housing and Urban Development program called "Rebuild by Design" will select her concept of homes with amphibious foundations as one of its 10 winners and give her a foot in the door of a bureaucracy that simply cannot cope with the concept.
• English proposes – and has demonstrated outside the U.S. – a design that anchors foundations to stationary posts and that can rise with flood waters and settle back onto terra firma when the waters.
• The design, engineer, architect and planner argues, makes more sense than elevating homes to a specified height based on a flood probability calculations, but that is the only system that the flood insurance program acknowledges.

From the article:

"I haven't given up. I think there is an air of change," she says. ...