Out-of-Towners Head to ‘Climate-Proof Duluth’

Duluth saw 2,494 new residents from out of state over the last five years, according to the American Community Survey. Real estate agents in Duluth say that nearly every out-of-town client now mentions concerns about rising temperatures and natural disasters as a motivation for their move. “Real estate and climate change cannot be separated,” said Shawn McCoy, a professor of real estate and economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It’s dystopian,” she said in an interview at Duluth’s city hall, a grand, cavernous granite building with Doric columns and arched windows. The post Out-of-Towners Head to ‘Climate-Proof Duluth’ appeared first on New York Times.