Imagine that a hurricane has destroyed your home. The roof is gone. The floors are flooded. Your family’s belongings are ruined. When this happens, you can apply for federal disaster aid, hoping for a ...

Climate change-related flooding poses growing systemic threats to the British residential property market, insurance sector and mortgage lending system, academics have warned. Researchers at Bayes ...

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Firefighters battle a house fire in Pacific Palisades in January. Rising risks of wildfires are increasing home insurance costs in California. Wally Skalij TNS Low-income California homeowners paid a ...

The second group of homeowners are now able to apply for My Safe Florida Home, a popular home-hardening grant program that could help residents cut property-insurance costs. As of Monday, low-income ...