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Let housing market "slowly acclimate" to climate risk, Fannie Mae exec says (www.marketplace.org)
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Fannie Mae is a US government-sponsored enterprise which buys up mortgages from banks, packages them, and sells to investors. Their rules largely dictate what kinds of mortgages are available in the US.

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[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

Also, it's clearly not working, because you can't buy insurance 100 years out. All the insurance companies do is jack up the prices every year until a property becomes uninsurable. As for house prices, the lower cost and therefore most at-risk ones are the only options for the poor. They have no options but to take the risk.