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Just as housing aggravates our emissions problem, climate change exacerbates the housing crisis: extreme weather has cost over $3 billion in insured housing damages for the past two years in a row. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, 1.5 million Canadians are now potentially unable to access flood insurance altogether, as wildfires and floods make the country a riskier place to insure. Don Iveson, co-chair of the Task Force for Housing and Climate, says, “We’re losing housing to climate-related perils at an accelerating rate at precisely the moment when we need to be growing housing inventory and not losing it.”

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