Sebastian Olascoaga

78% of surveyed Boston employees wanted formal generative-AI training, and 60% had already tried it.

Spring 2025 survey of more than 20% of the City's general workforce. Top concerns: inaccuracy (68.5%), security (57.6%), plagiarism/IP (53.8%). Conducted by the Boston Analytics Team and Office of Emerging Technology.

Buyers who saw flood-risk scores placed offers on homes with 57% lower flood risk.

Randomized field experiment of 17.5M Redfin.com users in partnership with USC, NBER, and MIT.

Academic versionNBER w33119, R&R at the American Economic Review.

In 74% of severe-drought metros, more Redfin users moved in than out.

25 of 34 U.S. metros where more than half of homes faced intense drought had positive net migration in Q2 2022. Affordability was outweighing climate risk in Sun Belt destinations.

16.1% of U.S. home-purchase agreements fell through in July 2022.

Highest cancellation rate since the pandemic onset. About 63,000 deals collapsed across 93 metros as mortgage rates crossed 5% and buyer leverage returned. Florida led the list, with Jacksonville at 29.3%.

61.2% of U.S. for-sale homes sat 30+ days in July 2022.

First year-over-year jump in stale inventory since the pandemic onset. Oakland, Phoenix, and Austin saw the steepest rebounds across 50 metros as mortgage rates crossed 5%.

Home prices grew 21% in burned California areas vs 33% in surrounding ones.

Analysis of the five largest California wildfires of 2010–2020. Home sales fell 43% in year 1; new construction surged 595%; investor cash purchases rose 17%.

U.S. counties most exposed to climate risk gained residents 2016–2020 across all five risk categories.

Heat +4.7%, drought +3.5%, fire +3%, flood +1.9%, storm +0.4%. The foundational 5-category survey behind the 2022 drought-specific follow-up.

South Carolina could see a 10.2% increase in rental vacancies if the eviction moratorium ended.

7.3% of SC renters reported "very likely" eviction, the highest share nationally. The state had distributed less than $100K of its $272M in federal rental-assistance funds.

39.4% of Utah homes face high fire risk, the largest share among Western U.S. states.

Colorado 19%, Idaho 14.4%, California 6.7% (but $628B in property value at risk). The risk-concentration companion to the October 2021 California-wildfire impact piece.