In many of the biggest metro areas in the Southeast, households are less insured than they were eight years ago, according to a Trulia analysis of government data. That doesn’t bode well for residents dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. In 2014, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that in that region’s biggest cities, the number of insured households dropped between 7 and 12 percent.
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