Where the Climate Buck Stops
Climate superfunds are a sensible way to put some of the costs back where they belong, but we’ll get them only if the public demands them.
An economist at the Wharton School just released a study looking at the ancillary individual and community benefits that supposedly come with homeownership: greater happiness, more civic participation, etc. etc. Her research basically finds no support for these benefits. Here’s a brief excerpt:
From Grace W. Bucchianeri, “The American Dream or The American Delusion? The Private and External Benefits of Homeownership.”