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We visited New Bern to document the challenges of the community's most disenfranchised as public housing residents, along with other poor, disabled, elderly, and vulnerable people, are becoming a first wave of climate migrants in the U.S.—people selectively displaced by increasingly frequent storms and floods, moved because they can't afford to stay. <br>
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Their forced removal marks the sputtering end of a long effort to close down the project of government-subsidized housing in this country, leaving affordable housing to the so-called free market. And those that do stay face both psychological tolls and environmental toxins left in the storm's wake.
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This is what a climate change catastrophe looks like.
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<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTA4ODUxNS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0Njc3MzQ1OX0.CgL-yFQoDZZE1Oqsv5nNTxDE7i4Hdcf_U9GVlWZT_mk/img.jpg?width=980" id="852f5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="34458dcb5ec78dbf7a7f0253c4ed7ad3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" /><h3><a href="https://www.ehn.org/poor-southerners-are-joining-the-globes-climate-migrants-2625541450.html" target="_blank">Poor southerners are joining the globe's climate migrants</a></h3><p>They put us in this "weird palliative care kind of situation, just waiting for it to die. And they're not providing any support for it while it's dying."</p><p><br></p>
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTA4ODUwMC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMzkzMjEwMn0.L7D_JBl18UHSMzV7QnuW0n37_7KEEpEx56OXrl93m6w/img.jpg?width=980" id="a75ea" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="32801fee25023ce65d77ff798b55f0a8" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" /><h3><a href="https://www.ehn.org/lingering-long-after-a-storm-mold-and-mental-health-issues-2625546179.html" target="_blank">Lingering long after a storm, mold and mental health issues </a></h3><p>North Carolinians are organizing against "toxic resiliency," focused on healing from trauma.</p><p><br></p>
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTA4ODUyMC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYwOTA5MTA4NX0.1M75dW24keFLMeO_0VsYrSBLdHA7JVMb7p8rCUKrBgE/img.jpg?width=980" id="6e5f6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b527a9201e2cfd55045018e720755668" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" /><h3><a href="https://www.ehn.org/listen-visiting-climate-migrants-in-new-bern-north-carolina-2625543962.html" target="_blank">LISTEN: Visiting climate migrants in New Bern, North Carolina</a></h3><p>"This is the worst storm I've ever endured."</p><p><br></p><p><em>Editor's note: This series is the result of a collaboration between EHN and <a href="https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/" target="_blank">Scalawag Magazine</a>, an independent nonprofit magazine that covers the American South.</em><br></p>
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