Hosted by: Fund for Housing and Opportunity

Mounting property insurance costs are creating new challenges for affordable housing providers and advocates, from skyrocketing costs for maintaining affordable housing to increasing instability for renters. This issue began in response to climate disasters, but increasing premiums are now being felt across the nation. Without intervention, they have the potential to change the future of the nation’s stock of affordable housing. The burden of these rising costs falls disproportionately on communities already marginalized by our country’s systems—particularly Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color—who are more likely to live in affordable housing and already face systemic barriers to housing stability and wealth-building. Amidst a changing national policy landscape, state and grassroots actors are working to stem this crisis by advancing solutions that could disrupt the system and bring about alternative options that preserve affordable housing and renter stability.

Join this funder briefing co-sponsored by the Fund for Housing and Opportunity and Funders Together to End Homelessness to learn about the impacts and implications of rising property insurance costs for housing affordability and renter stability and how housing providers, researchers, and advocates are working together to find innovative solutions.

For more context on this topic and what we will be covering at this funder briefing, see these resources:

• Shared Fates: A Housing Resilience Policy Vision for the Home Insurance Crisis and How the Insurance Crisis affects Affordable Housing Development, Climate and Community Institute 
• Rising Property Insurance Costs: The Threat to Affordable Housing, Shelterforce 
• National coalition letter on housing affordability and insurance, signed by 25 national housing organizations

Speakers

• Elisa Harrigan| Fund for Housing and Opportunity  
• Moira Birss | Climate and Community Institute 
• Andrea Ponsor | Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future 
• Andreanecia Morris | Housing NOLA  

Registration

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