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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. “It can’t be my forever home if I can’t afford it.”

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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. They are counting on someone to buy their home at a fair price when they retire.

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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.