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Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration

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How to Make the Decision to Stay or Leave

Most of Tahoe's housing stock was like built in the 1970s and never touched since. So it wasn't like running from a fire, right? I think there was this whole other set of push and pull factors which were primarily financial that I don't think I considered at the start. The availability and extent to which someone had bought homeowners insurance or flood insurance in flood-front areas was like a prime driver of whether they had the resources to rebuild their home. And then the ambient sort of level of housing shortage in a place was really, really important for renters, right? In a place like Northern California, if there's a wildfire that destroys hundreds or thousands of housing units, the

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