In Flood-Hit Public Housing, a Reminder That the Poor Bear Brunt of Storms’ Fury
“This week, after a brief evacuation, she returned to Trent Court to find that flooding from Florence had turned her place into a sodden wreck. She also realized that she was now a player in the kind of redevelopment drama that tends to swamp storm-battered places like this — a story of race, class, gentrification and safety fears, and questions without easy answers about who gets to live on often alluring, sometimes treacherous, waterside real estate.”