Climate Migration May Lead to the Next Great Housing Crisis | NBCLX

Climate migration and gentrification will accelerate as the United States faces an accelerating sea level rise, more intense heatwaves, wildfires, and even mega hurricanes, all worsened by a warming planet.

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[LXNews]

If you’re thinking about moving soon, you may have to start considering how climate change could affect the real estate you buy. But some regions have “climate amenities” like abundant freshwater and will be isolated from the effects of sea level rise. This Earth Week, Jalyn Henderson takes you to the Great Lakes region for more on the area’s future as a potential haven for climate migrants.

[jerzbouy]

At 76 I look back over the decades of natural disasters and "every time" with government aid and/or insurance benefits people rebuilt in the same place again, and again, and again. The cost in time, money, and effort is staggering...and insane. After the second time would not common sense tell you to get the hell out. But then I remember a friend once told me, "There is nothing common in common sense." And we prove it over and over and over.

[frecklesplace]

The difficult truth is they'd rather use the money to go to space and create a little space town

[VM-ydzq]

Has anyone figured out that when you put up lots of buildings and pave what used to be fields, you change the climate?

[flyjet]

I migrated due to the increasingly unbearable summers in Tucson, AZ. After 20 years there, I moved last year to MI. I was very concerned that my property value in AZ was doomed to decrease as ground water runs out and summers become more and more dangerous.

[elidee]

Please lets Stars a new tradition. Plant one tree to celebrate your kids birhdays.

[geofflewis]

..if you build suburbs on sandbars, you might want to ask, 'how did these sand bars get here' and 'could it happen again?.

[Benedicteful]

Idon’t think there will be anywhere you can go to avoid climate change.

[Ded-Ede]

Plant a tree or seeds everyday for the rest of your life. Parking lots without trees should be criminal. Replace concrete with nature and re-green the earth. Shop less. Stop buying things just to return them just because you can. In times like these we need convert our wasteful lawns and backyards to permaculture food forest gardens landscapes with perennial drought and heat tolerant plants to provide food year long for our family, friends and neighbors. It’s healthy and better for us mentality/physically and the environment. You will get your vitamins C from the food you grown and vitamin D from the sun. :)

[TheCj]

How about the conversation about over population ...

[silverstar]

As someone who lives in one of those now popular places, I can absolutely confirm we are being financially pushed out by the coastal residents. I can no longer afford to live in my hometown.

[alexa.]

It’s too late people. The big climate shift is already locked in. We missed our chance to head this off years ago.

[geekay]

nice relaxing video to watch with my morning coffee... (gulp)

[jshroud]

We need more of this.💯 Too much Denialism in Leadership which hampers us from moving forward.🎓 It CAN NOT be ignored anymore.🙅🏾‍♂️

[giovannirafael]

Who even has property insurance? What a rich people problem. Most people in the world don't even have that.

[smh]

THANK YOU TO BABY BOOMERS AND OLDER GENERATIONS

[ly]

The movement inward will certainly accelerate as property owners anticipate the falling of their home values. Much as white flight in the 1950s and 1960s emptied cities, the same will occur when people in vulnerable areas realize if they wait too long - their property may become much lower in value if not unsellable in the future. I think it is the anticipatory fears of falling property values, more than rising insurance rates, that will be the prime motivator for people to leave. Ironically, so much of this is going to happen to states in the South who are currently heavily laden with climate change deniers.

[jedics]

I am going to enjoy seeing those millionaire beach front houses go under water....

[paulburley]

Seattle!!??? Guess someone's forgetting about 9.2 earthquakes. And it's not the earthquake that's the problem, it's the following tsunami. Seattle !! 😅😆🤣

[BRUtahn]

I'm premigrating from Utah to a farm in Vermont. People think I'm crazy, but I feel like I'm barely keeping ahead of disaster. You gotta get out ahead of the crowd if you want to have a chance.