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Insurance carrier exodus rattles California and Florida housing markets

Housing Wire

In late June, Susan Gregory received an estimate for a new homeowner’s insurance policy on her 120-year-old St. Augustine, Florida property, after her previous insurer, United Property and Casualty, went insolvent earlier in the year. This is one of the easiest parts of Florida to insure and costs have gone up over 40%.”

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1.2 million homes face wildfire risk in California

Housing Wire

Increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change is a growing problem for insurers and homebuyers in affected areas, particularly California, according to a new report from data provider CoreLogic. CoreLogic said insurers’ models should account for the current risk landscape, including climate change considerations.

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Opinion: why we all have a stake in closing the homeownership gap

Housing Wire

The program helped a generation of Americans purchase their first home, however, due to a government policy known as “red-lining,” banks were effectively prohibited from issuing FHA-insured loans in neighborhoods that were predominantly Black or Hispanic. Demographers estimate that by 2050, the U.S. GDP, roughly $3 trillion.

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

Housing Wire

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. The legislation would provide several tools to help stem the loss of Section 515 affordable-housing in rural America.

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A CALL FOR MORE ACCESSORY DWELLINGS AMID HOUSING CRUNCH

Will Springer Realtor

What is true is that every time we lean in and face the headwinds of economic weakness the housing market is a welcome refuge.As That’s the conclusion of a 2021 report from the Research Institute for Housing America, which signaled added “stress” on housing and housing finance industries in determining risk.