Article 3ZFZA Climate gentrification: the rich can afford to move – what about the poor?

Climate gentrification: the rich can afford to move – what about the poor?

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Oliver Milman in Flagstaff, Arizona
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As people flee intense heat in Arizona for gentler climes, rental and property values soar. But what about those left behind?

Only half-jokingly, some residents of a progressive city 300 miles north of the Mexican border have adopted the "build the wall" slogan in the face of a wave of newcomers. But these perceived interlopers are starkly different from Donald Trump's imagination.

They are American, mainly white and are fleeing the unlivable heat.

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