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submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The home insurance market is crumbling in New Orleans, leaving Alfredo Herrera with few options for coverage — and skyrocketing insurance premiums.

Herrera, 35, works in finance for a local bank. He bought his 900-square-foot home in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood in 2020 for $270,000, and lives there with his partner.

In 2022, he paid $1,600 a year for home insurance. But last July, his insurer canceled his coverage, saying it was leaving Louisiana.

In the past, acquiring or keeping homeowners’ insurance didn’t present much of a problem.

But as climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather, insurers — especially those in areas most impacted by floods and fires — are raising their premiums, or pulling out altogether, impacting the affordability and availability of home and fire insurance.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
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[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

If the price is inflated someone ought to start an insurance company to cover those folks for less and arbitage themselves into vast riches for all these underserved folks. More likely the prices reflect reality and they should pay them.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I don't know what's going on the home owners side, but almost half of that is the highest flood insurance rate possible. (So a super high risk area) the flood rates are managed and get capped out. It's what enrages anyone around an inland plane. My 1 every 100 year flood coverage for an overflow brook costs 75% the rate of a coastal home that's likely to end up entirely in the ocean in the next decade.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

You can’t live in an area where your house is destroyed every other year and expect someone to pay for it.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Oh come on. No place is like that. I live in Florida, in the gulf coast, in a house from the 1940s. The house I moved from is 100 years old this year and still fine. Home insurance has been running a scam here for years, taking money and running. Of course the risk is higher but flood insurance is like 800 a year, house insurance exclusive of flood wants like 10x that, and they are cherry picking houses and leaving those they think are risky to be insured by the state insurance collective.

If I had all the money I'd sent to insurers over the years only to have them drop all the policies and disappear I could self insure at a higher amount that might actually pay to rebuild the house.

With any insurance, it's like gambling, the house always wins.

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[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

We need sanctuary cities to be built to anticipate massive human climate migration.

[-] Johnvanjim@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Megacity One here we come!

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Can’t have a sub-market if a majority of multiple generations are forced out of the market it feeds off of.

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My grandmother's home insurance has gone up close to 1000$ the past two years combined. I've been wanting to leave this doomed place for awhile, and I can't wait to buy a house in the mountains.

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