2023: The Climate Change Housing Deficit: A Scalable Tool to Justify Zoning Reforms in Flood-Prone Areas (IIF Momentum Funding)
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 Investigator: Sara Bronin, City and Regional Planning
Regional Plan Association: Melissa Kaplan-Macey, Moses Gates, Robert Freudenberg