{"id":822646,"date":"2026-07-24T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822646\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:07:08","slug":"94-of-canadian-homes-can-now-access-overland-flood-insurance-ibc-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822646\/","title":{"rendered":"94% of Canadian homes can now access overland flood insurance, IBC finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">To that end, the report calls on governments to strengthen land-use planning policies that discourage development in high-risk areas, invest in resilient public infrastructure, and improve the flood maps and flood-risk information available to governments, businesses and consumers, including through provincial participation in Canada&#8217;s Flood Risk Finder tool. It also urges support for household-level mitigation through targeted retrofit programs, along with the development of targeted solutions, including strategic buyout programs, for properties facing the highest levels of flood risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To that end, the report calls on governments to strengthen land-use planning policies that discourage development in high-risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,4191,287813,25945,44],"class_list":["post-822646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadians","tag-flood-insurance","tag-ibc","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}