Shared Fates: Rising Insurance Costs in Louisiana
To understand how the home insurance crisis is affecting households across the state, we compared price quotes for a hypothetical private insurance policy that we standardized …
Home Insurance
A Public Model for Home Insurance
In the News – Dissent Magazine
Home Insurance Should Be for Safety, Not Profits
In the News – Jacobin
Helene Should Trigger a National Rethink of Home Insurance
In the News – The New Republic
Shared Fates
Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and …
How Do We Fix Public Insurance Programs?
Hurricane season has begun in the U.S. – and is predicted to be “extraordinary.” Wildfire season has started and thousands of acres have already burned. These …
Disaster Response and Recovery Systems are Failing Black and Brown Communities in Texas
Andrew Barley is co-director of rebuild and voter engagement at West Street Recovery, a horizontally–structured and worker–directed disaster recovery nonprofıt based in Northeast Houston, Texas. Barley …
The home insurance crisis is a threat to financial stability
The United States is in the throes of another devastating housing crisis. Financial institutions are accumulating risk at an alarming pace, and regulators and policymakers are …
Who’s left out of the Florida insurance crisis conversation
MacKenzie Marcelin is a Florida resident and the climate justice director with Florida Rising, a grassroots organization that works with Black and brown low-income communities across …
Are premium price increases really a way to reduce climate risk exposure?
Home insurance prices are increasing in advanced economies around the world, at a rate that is making insurance unaffordable in countries such as Australia, Canada, the …