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Jean-Luc Adrien, Disaster Recovery Legal Corps Fellow, Equal Justice Works, Community Justice Project, Inc (Miami, FL)

Rebecca Page, Project Director, Earth Economics (Tacoma, WA)

Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti

Fighting climate-induced displacement through legal advocacy and economics

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Credit: Jorge Damian de la Paz @jddelapaz_

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How can economics be used to highlight the impacts of [green/climate] displacement and the costs of inaction?

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Framework:

Household Costs of Displacement

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Next Steps

  • Replicate economic modeling for other neighborhoods
  • Broaden/deepen modeling – include additional costs/scenarios
  • Limit modeling based on public data, or pursue survey work?
  • Get more feedback – is this a useful approach? Opportunities for improvement?