Climate Change, Migration Edge of the Abyss: Why Climate Migration May Lead to the Next Great Housing Crisis

Perry World House Visiting Scholar Jesse M. Keenan is quoted in this article on climate change and migration.

Living on the edge of an abyss. That's how one climate migration expert describes our current plight as nearly 15 million Americans could seek new homes in our lifetime as they try to escape the worst of effects of climate change. If that projection proves accurate it would reshape our country in more significant ways than the exodus of Black Americans from the South following the Civil War or the devastating Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

“Climate migration is ongoing now. This isn’t just a future theory,” explains Tulane University professor Jesse Keenan, one of the world’s leading experts on the topic. “We’re already seeing this in Arizona. There’s a lot of people leaving Southern Arizona and crowding housing markets in Northern Arizona, where it’s much cooler in the mountains. People can’t stand the extreme heat.” 

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