{"id":1214,"date":"2023-11-16T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2023-11-16T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:19:01","slug":"why-its-so-hard-to-stop-building-homes-in-places-at-risk-from-climate-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/why-its-so-hard-to-stop-building-homes-in-places-at-risk-from-climate-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s So Hard to Stop Building Homes in Places at Risk from Climate Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NPR: Nov 6, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief Resilience Officer Nick Angarone and Blue Acres Program Manager Courtney Wald-Wittkop are quoted in this article that spotlights how 3 different US cities, including Woodbridge, NJ, are adapting to climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With climate-fueled disasters killing hundreds of Americans annually and costing communities billions of dollars, a growing number of local governments are asking a basic question: Are there some places where people shouldn&#8217;t build homes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s one of the most difficult choices a community can make. Local governments typically want more housing, not less, because budgets are generally funded by the property taxes from those homes. At the same time, a nationwide housing shortage is creating even more pressure to build.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/11\/06\/1204923950\/arizona-california-new-jersey-climate-flood-wildfire-drought-building-homes.\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/11\/06\/1204923950\/arizona-california-new-jersey-climate-flood-wildfire-drought-building-homes.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: Nov 6, 2023 Chief Resilience Officer Nick Angarone and Blue Acres Program Manager Courtney Wald-Wittkop are quoted in this article that spotlights how 3 different US cities, including Woodbridge, NJ, are adapting to climate change. With climate-fueled disasters killing hundreds of Americans annually and costing communities billions of dollars, a growing number of local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/blueacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}