2023: The Climate Change Housing Deficit: A Scalable Tool to Justify Zoning Reforms in Flood-Prone Areas (RPA)
As the global climate crisis accelerates, the nation’s developed waterfronts are at particular risk from its worsening impacts. More than one million people in the tri-state metropolitan region currently live in flood-prone areas, about half in dense urban areas – that total number is expected to double by 2050. About one-third of this at-risk population lives in conditions that make them especially vulnerable, including those with low-incomes, non-native English speakers, the elderly, and the very young. The researchers will to conduct a collaborative research and advocacy project to better understand the impacts of climate change on housing stock in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County; develop actionable and scalable policy solutions to create more housing in climate-appropriate locations; and create a communications and advocacy strategy to implement proposed policy solutions.
Cornell: Sara Bronin (Art, Architecture, and Planning/City and Regional Planning)
Regional Plan Association (RPA): Melissa Kaplan-Macey, Moses Gates, Robert Freudenberg