Climate gentrification: the rich can afford to move – what about the poor?
by Oliver Milman in Flagstaff, Arizona from on (#3ZFZA)
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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