Miami’s real estate market continues to surge. Wealth flows in from places like California and New York, prices climb, and luxury condos move quickly. Yet beneath that momentum, a quieter shift is underway. What once lacked appeal is now drawing attention. Elevation, not beaches or nightlife, has become a form of value. This gradual shift is often called climate gentrification.
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Construction in flood-prone areas, which includes land near bodies of water and low-lying land, increases the likelihood of more damaging floods in those areas. According to a study conducted by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, South Florida alone accounted for 124,090 residential properties developed on 34,560 acres of floodplain land between 2001 and 2019.
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Outside of China, the state of Florida is the most vulnerable province in the world to economic damage caused by climate change, largely due to the state’s geography. While climate adaptation spending can prolong the environmental viability and economic vitality of the state, most of this resilience spending seems to be little more than a Band-Aid.
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