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Miami's affluent 'climate refugees' seek higher ground

Maria Bakkalapulo
December 6, 2018

It's not just warming temperatures and increasingly severe storms that are causing problems. There are also social implications to climate change. The Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami is seeing some of the earliest signs of climate gentrification in an area protected from rising sea levels. Wealthy people are driving up home prices and forcing current residents out. Maria Bakkalapulo reports.

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