Housing
CityLab Daily: HUD Derails a Housing Desegregation Rule
Also today: East Coast cities scramble after the blizzard, and why a new train hall won’t fix Penn Station.
High tides: As other East Coast cities shoveled out of Thursday’s blizzard, Boston had a damper problem: flooding. The National Weather Service estimates that the storm produced record high water levels in the harbor city, where sea level rise is a long-term threat. In 2013, scientists mapped where high tides will hit the city first in different climate change scenarios, making land uninhabitable as “hundred year” storms become more common.
Meanwhile in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to go after private landlords who have left thousands of tenants without heat or running hot water during the cold snap. But what about the city’s public housing tenants who had to brave the blizzard without heating?