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.
More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island, in southeast Queens and in the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse.
The report, released Monday by the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit civic organization, said that swaths of land in every borough were likely to become impossible to develop, helping push the area’s housing shortage to a staggering 1.2 million homes.
“You’re going to need to build more housing to just replace what is lost in your own municipality,” said Moses Gates, the association’s vice president for housing and neighborhood planning and an author of the report.
The report is the latest to underscore how the dual threats of climate change and a lack of housing are looming over coastal cities around the world.
New York City and its suburbs have not built enough homes to meet demand over the past few decades, helping to drive up rents and home prices. At the same time, the metropolitan area is struggling to adapt to increased flooding and other extreme weather caused by global warming.
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NEW
YORK
CONN.
Westchester
NEW
JERSEY
Suffolk
Suffolk
New York
City
Nassau
Suffolk
Estimated
housing loss
12,000 homes
4,000
Atlantic Ocean
1,000
200
CONNECTICUT
NEW
YORK
Westchester
NEW
JERSEY
Suffolk
New York
City
Nassau
Estimated
housing loss
12,000 homes
Atlantic Ocean
4,000
1,000
200
