In 15 Years, 80,000 Homes in the New York Area May Be Lost to Flooding

More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island and in southeast Queens and the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse.The report, released Monday by the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit civic organization, said that swaths of land in every borough were likely to…