On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we discuss how the rising cost of home insurance, driven by worsening climate disasters, is pushing up the costs of owning a home. In some cases, insurance companies are pulling out of towns altogether. And in others, people are beginning to move away. A new study by First Street Foundation predicts nearly $1.5 trillion in U.S. housing losses over the next 30 years
Guest:
Abrahm Lustgarten, environmental reporter for ProPublica and the author of “On The Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America.”
Resources:
Propublica: How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream