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What’s really driving ‘climate gentrification’ in Miami? It isn’t fear of sea-level rise

  • Written by Richard Grant, Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, University of Miami
imageResidents of Miami’s Little Haiti have been fighting plans for a luxury development for several years.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Miami’s Little Haiti has been an immigrant community for decades. Its streets are lined with small homes and colorful shops that cater to the neighborhood, a predominantly Afro-Caribbean population with a median...

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