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Is the world becoming uninsurable?

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478 points spking | 1 comments | 17 Jan 25 00:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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lupinglade ◴[17 Jan 25 06:07 UTC] No.42734553[source]▶
The problem is the materials used. Greedy developers building junk homes and making bank. People in those areas are able to afford fire resistant housing but most of them are being swindled into buying stick homes. The few properly designed homes fared far better. Code needs to be updated and consumers need to be educated.
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1. Dracophoenix ◴[17 Jan 25 06:13 UTC] No.42734585[source]▶
A number of those homes were old enough to qualify for social security. I doubt it's reasonable to believe developers could anticipate the environmental conditions that would befall a home some half-century since breaking ground.