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Homeowners, even those far away from fire hazards, are struggling to find insurance policies — and face staggering prices.
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Homeowners → struggle → prices
As The California Post reports, even homes built in suburbs like Menifee — deep in the Inland Empire and a long distance from fire-prone forests — are almost uninsurable.
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homes → report → forests
Homeowners are being forced to pay huge premiums on policies with high deductibles.
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Homeowners → force → deductibles
Or, worse, they are being forced onto the California FAIR Plan.
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they → force → Plan
What’s supposed to be the insurer of last resort has become the first resort, and often only choice available, for many California homeowners.
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supposed → suppose → homeowners
It doesn’t have to be this way.
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It → have → ?
There are several things California can do to make homes more insurable: The first is to fix the insurance market.
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first → be → market
For many years, California did not allow insurers to set premiums to include future risks.
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insurers → allow → risks
That kept premiums artificially low — and caused many insurers to leave the state.
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insurers → keep → state
Ironically, the more insurers leave, the more expensive insurance becomes.
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insurance → leave → ?
Gavin Newsom recently signed a law to require insurers to cover smoke damage.
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Newsom → sign → damage
While a welcome change, it won’t help if there are no policies on the market.
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it → help → market
The state needs a more flexible approach to pricing that brings insurance companies back.
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that → need → companies
Second, California needs to mitigate the wildfire risk.
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California → need → risk
The state must become much more aggressive in clearing brush from forests and chaparral; it should expand responsible logging, which can remove dead wood and create natural firebreaks and access roads.
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which → become → firebreaks
California also needs to redesign urban water systems to make them more decentralized: We need neighborhood water tanks for when reservoirs run dry.
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reservoirs → need → tanks
Fire engines need to carry pumps to use homeowners’ pools for water in emergencies.
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engines → need → emergencies
And — since many reservoirs are covered — we need more helicopter dip tanks to help fight fires from the air.
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we → cover → air
Third, we need better leadership.
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we → need → leadership
He traveled constantly, while insurance companies were dropping customers or dragging their feet.
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companies → travel → feet
Lara took action in his last few months in office to hold insurance companies accountable — but that’s not good enough.
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that → take → office
Both candidates in the upcoming election are Democrats who offer radically different approaches: Jane Kim wants the state to take over the fire insurance market.
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state → offer → market
Ben Allen wants to help communities “harden” themselves against the risk.
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communities → want → risk
Whoever wins needs to take the job more seriously than Lara did.
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Lara → win → job
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