Climate Changed
Latest Climate Threat for Coastal Cities: More Rich People
- Building codes, insurance premiums push middle class inland
- ‘Climate gentrification’ starving tourism economies of workers
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When Hurricane Irma reached Florida’s Big Pine Key in September, it caused the floor of Terry and Sharon Baron’s cream-colored mobile home to collapse. On Marathon Key, twenty miles north, the winds lifted Diane Gaffield’s mobile home off its concrete pad and smashed it against her neighbor’s house.
A few blocks over, Kimberly Ruth’s mobile home simply vanished into the storm.