As sea-level rise makes once-desirable neighborhoods untenable, Black Miami residents face rising rents and land grabs.

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…

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