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Why Does Air Quality Matter for Real Estate?

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Perhaps the most popular words real estate professionals utter to potential buyers is “location, location, location.” In real estate, location is often a key factor in the selling process. Along with two environmental engineer friends, they decided to make air pollution visible and actionable in real-time.

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Flood Risk Disclosure: Model State Requirements for Disclosing Flood Risk During Real Estate Transactions

Environmental News Bits

This guide identifies states with the strongest flood risk disclosure requirements and provides a selection of their laws and disclosure forms as … Continue reading Flood Risk Disclosure: Model State Requirements for Disclosing Flood Risk During Real Estate Transactions.

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Statement: Leaked Document Shows Ontario Government Knew Expanding Urban Boundaries Would Make it Harder to Build More Homes

Enviromental Defense

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE (environmentaldefence.ca): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities. –

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Ontario Government Political Staff Directed Changes to Municipal Official Plans to Favour the Interests of Select Landowners

Enviromental Defense

The documents also offer evidence that Ministers’ offices, other than that of Housing Minister Steve Clark, were involved as early as January 2022, prior to the June 2022 election, and yet the government still kept Ontario voters in the dark. Of the four requests, two have now resulted in partial releases.

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Statement: The Ontario Government’s So-Called “Get It Done” Bill Would Revive the Sprawl and Land Speculation Scandal

Enviromental Defense

The potential new law would reignite the Ontario government’s sprawl and land speculation scandal in three main ways : The bill being considered would backtrack on last year’s reversal of the corrupt settlement boundary expansions that were imposed on Golden Horseshoe regions in 2022.

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Real estate worth $35B could be underwater in 2050

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A new analysis finds that local governments in coastal states will lose billions of dollars in local tax revenue as rising seas claim developed land. Read the full story at Climatewire.

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How to Address Sea Level Risks in California Real Estate Transactions

Legal Planet

The latest policy brief from the UCLA Emmett Institute examines California’s existing real estate disclosure practices and suggests mechanisms to improve them to account for the accelerating risk of rising sea levels and ultimately inform potential buyers. local land use planning that implements sea level rise adaptation strategies).

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