Climate Change & Mortgage Problem, How Climate is Effecting Mortgages

Climate Change Could Punch a Hole Through the Financial System by Making 30-Year Home Mortgages Effectively Unobtainable in Entire Regions Across Parts of the U.S.

That's what the future could look like without policy to address climate change, according to The latest research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The bank is considering These and other risks on Friday in an unprecedented conference on the economics of climate Change. The housing market doesn't yet factor in the risk of climate change, which is already Affecting many areas of the U.S, including flood-prone coastal communities, agricultural Regions and parts of the country vulnerable to wildfires. In California, for instance, 50,000 Homeowners can't get property or casualty insurance because of the increased risk to their Homes.