After a 12-day journey from the Caribbean to the East Coast of the United States, Hurricane Matthew left a trail of destruction from Haiti to Virginia, and many places in between.
What may add to the disaster is that fact that in the largest cities in the Southeast, homeowners are less insured than they were eight years ago, according to an analysis of government data by Trulia, an online real estate site.
Researchers used 2006 through 2014 data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey to calculate the share of homeowners who are currently paying homeowners' insurance.
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