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source rows remain attached to the child approaches.", "evidence_quality": "limited", "group_id": "idea-group:housing-homelessness:insurance-risk-stability", "group_kind": "approach", "group_slug": "insurance-risk-stability", "idea_ids": ["idea:housing-homelessness:insurance-market-stability"], "issue_id": "housing-homelessness", "label": "Insurance and climate-risk stability", "party_aggregates": [ { "candidate_count": 1, "claim_count": 1, "issue_candidate_count": 7, "party": "Democratic" }, { "candidate_count": 1, "claim_count": 1, "issue_candidate_count": 2, "party": "Republican" } ], "primary_approach_id": "housing-homelessness--insurance-market-stability", "primary_idea_slug": "insurance-market-stability", "quality_flags": ["single_source"], "review_status": "codex_curated_review_candidate", "source_count": 1, "stance_counts": { "oppose": 0, "qualify": 1, "record": 0, "support": 1, "unclear": 0 }, "summary": "Housing affordability approaches centered on insurance availability, premiums, and climate-risk pricing." } ], "issue": { "analysis_questions": [ "Is the row diagnosing housing affordability, unsheltered homelessness, or both?", "Does the proposal create housing supply, prevent displacement, move people indoors, or audit spending?", "What capacity, funding, or local compliance has to exist for the proposal to work?" ], "approach_ids": [ "housing-homelessness--housing-supply-permits", "housing-homelessness--renter-homelessness-relief", "housing-homelessness--homelessness-spending-accountability", "housing-homelessness--homebuyer-down-payment-help", "housing-homelessness--household-relief", "housing-homelessness--public-affordable-housing", "housing-homelessness--housing-tax-local-funds", "housing-homelessness--insurance-market-stability", "housing-homelessness--construction-cost-drivers", "housing-homelessness--renter-protection-prevention", "housing-homelessness--encampment-enforcement-indoor-placement" ], "candidate_count": 9, "claim_count": 66, "coverage_summary": { "average_score": 54, "by_quality": { "comparative": 2, "limited": 7, "single_candidate": 2 }, "warning": "Coverage summarizes normalized source rows only; missing rows are not opposition." }, "idea_group_ids": [ "idea-group:housing-homelessness:supply-approval-and-construction", "idea-group:housing-homelessness:public-affordability-finance", "idea-group:housing-homelessness:renter-homelessness-services", "idea-group:housing-homelessness:insurance-risk-stability" ], "issue_id": "housing-homelessness", "label": "Housing & Homelessness", "party_denominators": [ { "candidate_count": 7, "party": "Democratic" }, { "candidate_count": 2, "party": "Republican" } ], "problem_statement": "California's housing costs and visible homelessness are treated as related but not identical problems: high rents and too few homes create pressure, while unsheltered homelessness also depends on shelter, treatment, service capacity, enforcement choices, and state-local execution.", "summary": "Housing supply, affordability, renter relief, public land, and homelessness response.", "theme_ids": [ "affordability", "homelessness", "homelessness-city-budget", "homelessness-renter-prevention", "homelessness-spending", "housing", "insurance", "insurance-wildfire", "public-safety-homelessness", "renters-homelessness" ] }, "limitations": [ "This is a research prototype, not a voter guide, endorsement, or final assessment.", "Many rows are model-generated or unreviewed and should be treated as evidence-navigation aids.", "Missing or limited coverage means the dataset has not ingested, normalized, or balanced that surface yet; it is not evidence that a candidate lacks activity there.", "Use source URLs and record IDs when citing claims. Prefer the linked JSON/JSONL companion files for retrieval." ], "links": { "app_ideas": "https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=ideas&issue=housing-homelessness", "app_issue": "https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=issues&issue=housing-homelessness", "json": "https://polit.pages.dev/llm/issues/housing-homelessness.json", "markdown": "https://polit.pages.dev/llm/issues/housing-homelessness.md" }, "schema_version": "llm-static-exports/v1", "stance_guide": { "oppose": { "description": "Source rows reject or argue against the selected approach statement.", "label": "Opposes this approach" }, "qualify": { "description": "Source rows partly support, condition, or mix the selected approach with another claim.", "label": "Mixed / conditional signal" }, "record": { "description": "Source rows describe a record signal rather than a current position.", "label": "Record-only signal" }, "support": { "description": "Source rows back the selected approach statement.", "label": "Supports this approach" }, "unclear": { "description": "Source rows mention the topic but do not clearly support or oppose the approach.", "label": "Unclear signal" } } }