No, N.Y. Times, 80,000 Homes Will Not Be Lost to Flooding
9 hours ago Kip Hansen
News Note by Kip Hansen — 8 April 2025
At the New York Times, Mihir Zaveri and Hilary Howard allow themselves to be fooled by an alarmist report, released Monday by the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit civic organization, which said “by 2040, dozens of neighborhoods and suburbs are likely to have lost thousands of homes to floods.”
The NY Times title is “In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding”.
The report that has led these two professional journalists astray is “Averting Crisis – Zoning to Create Resilient Homes for All” particularly its section “Flood Exposure and Loss”.
The report seems rather straightforward, stating in simple language “By 2040, around 77,300 acres of residential-zoned land in New York City and the study area suburbs – or 10.5% of such land – may face flooding.”
That seems like a lot of lost residential area, doesn’t it?
How did they figure that?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/09/no-n-y-times-80000-homes-will-not-be-lost-to-flooding/
