In New Jersey, a slow-motion evacuation from climate change
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. –
Housing is in high demand in the heavily populated northeastern United
States. But in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the state has bought and torn
down 145 homes since 2013 and returned the land to nature, with eight
homes demolished this month alone. Dozens more are slated to be torn
down in the near future.
Housing is in high demand in the heavily populated northeastern United
States. But in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the state has bought and torn
down 145 homes since 2013 and returned the land to nature, with eight
homes demolished this month alone. Dozens more are slated to be torn
down in the near future.
Some neighbourhoods in this town of over 100,000 residents just off the
bustling New Jersey Turnpike are projected to be partly or fully
underwater in coming decades as global sea levels rise.