Drought Shifts Wildfire’s Fault Lines Into No Man’s Land Buys

Millions of acres of scorched earth, tens of thousands of homeless people living in the streets, and hundreds of thousands more barely making ends meet to put a roof over their heads.

It sounds biblical, but it’s here, now. And it’s housing, where the first-best option to make homes and communities more affordable is to build them farther from central cities where the land is cheaper looks to have come to a violent head with nature.

Arguments pro and con on the risks and threats of development, where and where not to develop, what the law says,

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