Despite the recent downward pressure on prices in California, the cost of buying a home remains high—much more than many can afford. Home values might be dropping on a monthly basis, but they ...

California facing an insurance crisis Peggy Holter was one of the many Californians who lost their home in the blaze of the January wildfires.

Dave Jones, the Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Friday, May 30, 2025. Jones was also California ...

Dave Jones, the Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Friday, May 30, 2025. Jones was also California ...

California alone accounts for an estimated 1.4 million homes of this excess shortage, making it the single largest contributor to America’s housing crisis.

The median sale price of a California home was $854,700 in the same month, up 0.2 percent from a year earlier, according to Redfin. Five years earlier, in April 2020, a typical California home ...

Before the world watched on as wildfires engulfed large swathes of California early in 2025, an insurance crisis was already starting to heat up. In the months and years before the disastrous 2025 ...