This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Sanibel Island, one of the most treasured vacation resorts in America, was an insurance agent’s dream. Year after year, the 5,000-odd residents of the barrier island on Florida’s Gulf Coast wrote checks for their home and flood […]
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The five-year freeze adds to other steps, such as higher taxes on vacant plots and buildings, aimed at forcing more supply into the Saudi capital's market.
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