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MIAMI — By the time Latonya Floyd came outside, the photographer’s lens was already pointed toward her family’s home.

There was “no knock, no hello,” she said.

When she asked what he was doing, he replied that he was “just getting pictures of the property,” for his boss, a real estate investor.

The Floyds had lived in that house for three generations, through racial uprisings in the 1960s, ’80s, and in 2020, the crack co***ne epidemic, and all that came with being called “the hood.” They were not selling.

Soon after, her parents installed the fence she’d long asked for.

Before, neighbors cut through the yard on their way to church, kids drifted between houses without knocking, and Sunday dinners stretched across porches and into the street. Now, a locked gate stands where people once walked freely.

What felt like rudeness that day was part of something larger and tied to climate change.

As the Sea Rises and Rents Triple, Miami’s Black Neighborhoods Are Disappearing What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now the city’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built.

Determine the association of infant mortality (IM) and gentrification, a composite measure of rising neighborhood income, education, and housing costs.

Gentrification, measures of neighborhood change, and infant mortality in Michigan - Journal of Perinatology Determine the association of infant mortality (IM) and gentrification, a composite measure of rising neighborhood income, education, and housing costs. Retrospective cohort analysis of 672,432 infants born 2010–2019 across metropolitan Michigan. Multilevel multivariable regression models examined ...

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There’s a new sheriff in New York City.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed former NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond as New York City sheriff, calling him “principled, courageous and deeply committed to justice.”
Raymond replaces Sheriff Anthony Miranda, whom Mamdani fired this week. The mayor has not publicly provided a reason for Miranda’s removal. Miranda, who was appointed sheriff in 2022, was previously investigated by the city’s Department of Investigation over his handling of unlicensed smoke shop enforcement operations and cash seized during those raids. READ MORE: https://7ny.tv/5XMQBq