The private market hasn't offered flood insurance widespread in a long time, but they do ensure for fire coverage that's included in the standard homeowners policy. And then you also get windstorm insurance, right? So hurricane can flood your house or it can just the wind can knock it over. The wind part of it, confusingly, is covered by traditional homeowners insurance.
For decades, Americans have been moving South and West. That migration pattern was visible in political terms when seven congressional districts moved between states after the 2020 census, and it continues to be visible in the booming construction and job markets in cities across the Sun Belt.
In this installment of the podcast, Galen speaks with author Jake Bittle, who argues that it’s only a matter of time before those trends reverse, or at least shift. However, as he writes in his new book, "The Great Displacement," this time it won’t be cheap housing, low taxes and plentiful jobs that attract people to new places. It will be a harshening climate that pushes them away.
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