Imagine that a hurricane has destroyed your home. The roof is gone. The floors are flooded. Your family’s belongings are ruined. When this happens, you can apply for federal disaster aid, hoping for a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. Port Washington, N.Y.: The residents of the Harborside, a ...

Climate change-related flooding poses growing systemic threats to the British residential property market, insurance sector and mortgage lending system, academics have warned. Researchers at Bayes ...

Firefighters battle a house fire in Pacific Palisades in January. Rising risks of wildfires are increasing home insurance costs in California. Wally Skalij TNS Low-income California homeowners paid a ...

The second group of homeowners are now able to apply for My Safe Florida Home, a popular home-hardening grant program that could help residents cut property-insurance costs. As of Monday, low-income ...