I think the questions is, why do you primarily see a tragic & deadly disaster that displaced thousands of people as an "opportunity"?
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Quite the contrary. Disasters in American history have mostly been used to expropriate property. If your takeaway is that there's a silver lining to floods and fires, you're not paying attention.
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In several cases in European history, property was expropriated after disasters and then was turned into social housing.
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And Vienna needed WWI to get to the Red Vienna social housing program.
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We see large housing projects like Gropiusstadt arise from post war Berlin as well.
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