This is a pretty banger academic article that lays out the connection between urban housing unaffordability, exurban sprawl in the wildland-urban interface, and climate risk. (summary blog post coming in next week's @cayimby.bsky.socialwww.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
One of California’s most pressing social and environmental challenges is the rapid expansion of the wildlands–urban interface (WUI). Multiple issue...
In Japan there are 9 million empty homes, as the shrinking population and rural depopulation are causing houses to be abandoned. You can buy old homes for nothing. I think the solution is for people in California to move to Japan (*ˊᗜˋ*)ﾉｼ♡
Uh. That little map graph is terrifying.
Mike Davis changed my life, and I will always promote work like this.