After Hurricane Ian, Southwest Florida takes its chances on the climate crisis and builds back right up to the water’s edge.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Public Subsidies to Sports Stadiums Aren’t Going Away
A Tempe, Arizona, vote showed cities can decline to fund millionaires’ arenas—but some municipalities still shower wealthy teams with taxpayer dollars.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Waterlogged in Southeastern Virginia
As sea levels rise, certain places in the Hampton Roads region are sinking faster than anticipated—and some residents may have to think about moving out of harm’s way.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Q&A: Charleston’s Coming Storm
Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford dissects how the South Carolina city ignores its Black residents and its climate realities.
Posted inTAP
The Climate Home Insurance Apocalypse Is Nigh
Today on TAP: Farmers Insurance Group and AIG are halting home policy sales in Florida. They weren’t the first and they won’t be the last.
Posted inHousing
New York Considers Community Land Trusts
Nonprofit developers are working to get first dibs on transforming multifamily housing developments into real options for rent-burdened New Yorkers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Sen. Tim Scott’s ‘Land of Opportunity’ (Zones)
The presidential hopeful’s signature poverty-fighting policy is a bust.
Posted inHousing
Downtown Rebound
Transforming office-centric big-city downtowns into vibrant residential neighborhoods is no easy task.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bank Pullback Drives More Real Estate Financing to Shadow Lenders
Regional banks have been thought to be at risk from rising vacancies and lower valuations of commercial real estate, but asset managers and other non-banks are more exposed.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Model-Dependent Policymaking Ignores Race
Despite decades of policies aimed at creating new generations of homeowners, many African Americans grapple with a hostile housing sector. Where did the assumptions go wrong?