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Facing the crisis of insurance in Miami and beyond: polycentric strategies for a risky world
Tl;dr –Check out the report on the 2024 Miami Dade Property Insurance Strategy Forum, now available on Insurance for Good. In this post, I’ll tell the story of how the strategy forum happened in the first place, and share my own takeaways from it.
When people learn that I’m from Miami, they sometimes ask me how long we have until it’s under water. I always respond that long before it’s actually flooded, the real estate market will sink under the collapsing insurance market (and with it, perhaps our entire economy). I’m not just a lone Cassandra here; at least some people well-established in the real estate and insurance sectors have been warning us about this for years. We’re already seeing this future intrude into our present: premiums in South Florida are climbing in many cases about 20% a year, and given the damage from Helene and Milton, we can expect that climb to accelerate next year. At this pace, most people simply won’t be able to afford insurance here within the next decade. Even if our decades-long lucky hurricane-miss streak holds, we’re already well on our way to being in over our heads.
Helping Judy and her Son
Judith Hawkins’ family needs help, so please join me in supporting them in this time of crisis. See the crowdfunding page here, or just give in the gizmo below. As is sadly typical, I’m coming to write about this a bit … Continue reading
Annual Reporting (2012-2013): the Arts and Craft of Facilitation
Upon checking out my LinkedIn profile from last year, someone recently told me candidly that I scan as ‘high risk.’ I LOL’d. On one hand, yeah: even in the midst of unemployment, I’d been cavalier with my engagement of this … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2012-2013) Madison, Wisconsin
I visited Madison, Wisconsin three times over the past year, with two different purposes: to train as a “cooperative developer,” and to study the practice of “coproduction.” Cooperatives The first purpose for my visit to Madison was the CooperationWorks! Cooperative Business Development … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2013) Residency in DC
For much of 2013, I traveled to sites where I could learn firsthand about cooperative organization, co-productive labor, and the commons. Some of this work was through formal ‘residency’ programming designed to support social research and creative practice. Some of … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: (2012) Digital Justice in the District
Throughout most of 2012, I worked on a couple of projects that I’d started while at Bread for the City. (I left Bread in March of 2012, but in both of these projects I saw the promise of opportunity to … Continue reading
Annual Reporting: Two Years of Useful Unemployment
In my professional life, I wrote Annual Reports. It was one of my primary responsibilities.