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The lack of affordable home insurance is a growing threat to the overall economy of the U.S., write Tracey Lewis & Jordan Haedtler in @cplusc.bsky.social's latest home insurance crisis blog: www.climateandcommunity.org/insurance-fi...

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Despite this threat to the economy, individual state policy responses to the home insurance crisis are currently premised on faulty logic and likely to make the situation even worse, Tracey Lewis & Jordan Haedtler write: www.climateandcommunity.org/insurance-fi...

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Seems like insurance is reflecting the misallocation of real resources (construction), financing (mortgage originations), and permitting (mostly yes for sprawl, mostly no for sustainable urban density), and this article is blaming the messenger of the climate crisis. Nobody is blameless but c'mon.

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