Housing remains a top-tier issue in B.C. given sky-high prices that have ramped up affordability pressures on renters and first-time homebuyers. It has spurred a flurry of policy responses aiming to increase new housing supply—including substantial new investments and regulatory reform to speed construction of much-needed new homes.

This focus is rightly placed, and B.C. has made important policy changes to address this problem.

But one important issue affecting housing affordability has been largely overlooked until this point: the impacts of climate change.

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