Climate change could end mortgages as we know them: CBS

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Climate change could end mortgages as we know them

Climate change could punch a hole through the financial system by making 30-year home mortgages — the lifeblood of the American housing market — effectively unobtainable in entire regions across parts of the U.S. 

That's what the future could look like without policy to address climate change, according to the latest research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The bank is considering these and other risks on Friday in an unprecedented conference on the economics of climate change.

For the financial sector, adapting to climate change isn't just an issue of improving their market share. "It is a function of where there will be a market at all," wrote Jesse Keenan, a scholar who studies climate adaptation, in the Fed's introduction.

• U.S. taxpayers are at risk for homes threatened by climate change
• Climate change could deliver a $4 trillion hit to the financial system
• California fire insurance premiums pricing out homeowners

No more mortgages?.....

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