Coastal cities face unprecedented flooding, heat, and storm-surge risk — but exposure isn't distributed equally. We analyze climate vulnerability through the lens of housing, infrastructure, and capital investment, so planners and funders can act on it.
How the financialization of rental housing by investment firms is reshaping urban climate adaptation, focused on Norfolk, Virginia, where rising seas and rising rents are colliding. The book details how adaptation plans turn climate risk into bankable assets, how a mobility trap forces renters into flood-prone neighborhoods, and how flood resilience was weaponized to displace Black public-housing residents.
Get the book →Parcel and neighborhood-level indices that combine hazard, housing, finance, and demographic data looking at who is exposed, and who can least afford to be.
Evidence for where flood mitigation, cooling, and resilience dollars protect the most people, built for grant applications and capital plans.
Public-facing interactive maps that make exposure legible to residents and stakeholders without drowning them in jargon.
A deeper look at how the cost of climate adaptation is showing up in Norfolk rents.
Read the report →Affordable housing concentrates in the neighborhoods facing the most climate pressure. Our housing research tracks both sides of that squeeze.
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