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The affordable housing crisis meets the climate crisis in New York

by Samantha Fields

Nov 19, 2021

After more than a dozen people died in illegal basement apartments in New York in in September, from flash flooding, there's been renewed attention on how to make those apartments safer in the face of climate change.

A flooded basement level apartment stands in a Queens neighborhood that saw massive flooding and numerous deaths following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on Sept. 3, 2021 in New York City.

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