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Flood-safety zoning reduces damages for houses built on the riskiest land AND pushes out new construction to safer areas with less stringent regulation.

By Abby Ostriker & Anna Russo #LSEEnvironmentWeek2023

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Calif. scared off its biggest insurer. More could follow. ift.tt/yM0R8pA

Join us in person in Cambridge, MA from 12-1 p.m. April 19 as Abby Ostriker Abby Ostriker and Anna Russo present findings from their paper, 'The Effects of Floodplain Regulation on Housing Markets.' Register: lincolninst.edu/courses-events… Lunch will be provided.

What would happen if we used our bodies to bargain

for the safety of others, for earth,
if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified

—Ada Limón, born #OTD in 1976

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Minority homeowners in the U.S. bear a higher property tax burden for the same bundle of public services. What drives these patterns?

Carlos Avenancio-León (UC San Diego Rady School of Management) & Troup Howard (@UBusiness) on the assessment gap:

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