| In Texas' booming Austin-to-San Antonio megaregion, developers are building into fire-prone wildlands to meet housing demand. The state is now just behind California in the number of buildings in danger of wildfire damage, with over a third of Austin's land area considered high risk and with structural vulnerability projected to be in the billions of dollars. But a lack of community awareness complicates efforts to make the region fire resilient, especially as most of Texas' land is privately owned. Austin has stood out in the region as a model for introducing new fire codes and securing funding to combat wildfires, but as one expert tells contributor Patrick Sisson, you can only be as safe as your neighbor. Today on CityLab: One More Thing Moving From California to Texas: Wildfire Risk — Immanual John Milton Berlin's Efforts to Reduce Driving Stalled by German Car Culture
While Germany's capital has made progress in building bike lanes and restricting traffic, national political shifts show that automobiles still reign supreme. It's Getting Harder to Insure Your Property If You Live in California
One of the biggest property and casualty insurers in the state announced it will no longer accept new applications for property and casualty coverage. Conservative Billionaires Are Heading for Rare Defeat in Texas Over Private School Subsidies
Advocates for voucher programs face pushback from an unlikely coalition of city Democrats and rural Republicans. | 
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