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JEFFREY-WILENSKY: Rising seas threaten low-income housing up and down the coasts. Bernice Rosenzweig is a professor of environmental studies at Sarah Lawrence College.īERNICE ROSENZWEIG: People that live in affordable housing are more exposed to flooding, and they have the fewest resources for dealing with the increased flood risk. Nationally, another estimate projects three times as many low-income homes at risk of frequent flooding by 2050. That's nearly 50% more than were inundated by the original superstorm in 2012. A WNYC/NPR analysis of exclusive data from the National Hurricane Center shows that a Sandy-like storm could flood more than 50 NYCHA developments by 2080. JEFFREY-WILENSKY: Perez's complex escaped Sandy, but with another few decades of sea level rise, a similar storm could bring floodwaters right to its doors. When you see a hospital going underwater, you're like, oh, my God. She watched as the storm hit the local hospital and two other public housing developments nearby. JEFFREY-WILENSKY: But 10 years ago, during Hurricane Sandy, Perez saw the streets turn into rivers around her home. Actually, sometimes I don't even go on the street. We have lots of gardening that happens here, and it makes it more beautiful. JEFFREY-WILENSKY: Claudia Perez, president of the residents association, says her neighbors spend hours each week tending the flowers and vegetables. Lush grass and tall shade trees fill the campus of this New York City housing authority development, and there are garden beds everywhere.ĬLAUDIA PEREZ: Eventually, we're going to have an apple and peach orchard. And we're at the Washington Houses in Harlem, which are a sea of green. JACLYN JEFFREY-WILENSKY, BYLINE: I'm Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky. In New York, WNYC's Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky and Rosemary Misdary report from different sides of the East River. The modeling shows that development continues in places that will be underwater in future storms, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk. NPR has analyzed modeling from the National Hurricane Center for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City. As climate change warms the planet, drives up sea levels and energizes hurricanes, a big concern is storm surge.

Mortal empires map needs to have more south