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Yesterday — 10 April 2025Main stream

America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis

10 April 2025 at 17:01
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.

© Dan Winters for The New York Times

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Before yesterdayMain stream

In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding

The metro region’s housing shortage is acute. But by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods, a new report found.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Some 100,000 New Yorkers currently live in low-lying coastal areas affected by routine flooding. About half of them reside in the neighborhoods surrounding Jamaica Bay.
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