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The reality is that the climate crisis and the housing crisis are both converging in American homes – and together they are exacerbating unaffordability. Families aren’t experiencing these challenges one at a time. They’re experiencing rising rents, unaffordable home insurance, soaring utility bills, deferred maintenance, unsafe indoor air, longer commutes, and more climate-driven disasters all at once. Treating these as separate policy problems produces fragmented solutions.