warns that insurance companies “may withdraw from offering insurance or raise premiums to levels that make policies unaffordable to those living in high-risk areas throughout the state … Hardest hit will be the most vulnerable, exacerbating already-growing social and financial inequalities.”A fire sweeps over a city. Those who can least afford to weather the catastrophe leave, many never to return. Next, home prices rise sharply because of the precipitous decline in supply.
Across Highway 101, a few miles away from the city’s hilly eastern edge, Ravi Nanjangud lost his Coffey Park home in the Tubbs Fire where, with his wife, he had has raised two children. While his insurance company covered the loss of household items and some of the house itself, the settlement fell far short of what the business consultant needed to rebuild.
That goal, elusive for years, has been made more difficult as the climate shifts in a way that has made an ever smaller proportion of land safe for construction. The burden to meet the affordable housing targets falls primarily on local governments, such as Sonoma County’s, where almost every year fire and flooding are undermining efforts to attain it.Some property owners still have not rebuilt because of high costs following the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
Her work originally focused on the region most affected by the Tubbs Fire and several simultaneous blazes. But it quickly expanded to work across four counties, including Butte, where the Camp Fire burned down the city of Paradise a year after Tubbs. Paradise, a city of poorer residents, many of them retirees, is far behind Santa Rosa in rebuilding.“And my answer to those asking that question about whether those whose homes burned should be allowed to rebuild was always the same.
Are you suggesting that the mega rich who are ignoring climate change and watching the world burn have an agenda to let it happen cos it will smarten up the neighbourhood!
Apoc. 16 . 6 a 7😔
CA has so many regulations that the price of a new build is at least double what it should be Delays & inflation are responsible for high cost of homes The working taxpaying middle class are leaving CA Soon like NYC the tax base will be gone
FYI- so is Defunding law enforcement which is even more dramatic towards inequality... only a few can afford private security!!!
New climate? Is this a joke?
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New climate? It's piss poor forest management. Not everything needs to be spun into the current narrative. Sometimes it's better to actually use facts, even if honesty is the bane of your profession
Pay attention people. They're causing these fires .
🤣. WaPo is garbage
There may be inequity, but the causes are legion. Inflation, lack of education, poor parenting, etc. Our modern world has always been in a push pull relationship between wages & rising costs. Housing costs rise as all those aspects of that industry strive to maintain some profit.
The only people who can afford to live there/pay property taxes are the wealthy. All driven by blue state policies.
Democrat policies have consequences. Elections have consequences.
Quintessentially blue state 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best joke of the week! Well done.
I like how the implication of the headline is that housing issues are happening despite California's progressive policies rather than because of them. California's progressive politics is the main reason they can't effectively deal with this, or any other, problem.
Claiming that CA is quintessentially blue is a bit farcical. Someone needs to visit the SJ Valley, then ask themselves about CAs many notable GOP governors.
'Gentrifying' is a racist term. Overall, fires are down not up from three decades ago. What really happened is people built houses deeper into the forest. Forests that have pine trees which only drop their cones when they burn.