City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
Welcome to City Limits' City on the Edge newsletter, where we feature reporting and as resources for readers about climate, health and the environment in New York City.
In the weeks after Hurricane Ida struck in 2021, city and state officials announced announced a $27 million Ida relief fund to help undocumented victims who didn’t qualify for federal emergency aid because of their immigration status.The program was immediately hailed as historic, the first time that New York created a relief program for undocumented families who had been excluded from other assistance.
More than a year later, the fund has disbursed a little more than $2 million of the allocated $27 million, with about 200 applicants still waiting on funds, according to recent data shared with City Limits. Some lawmakers are calling for the state to reopen the program to applicants once again. Others have called for the leftover funding to be earmarked for future storm aid for undocumented New Yorkers.
Mariana Simões joined City Limits this month covering climate and the environment. She is a Brazilian investigative journalist covering climate, politics and urban issues in Brazil and the United States. Her work has appeared in global outlets like The New York Times, The Economist, Vice, Aljazeera, USA Today and others. She coordinated award-winning multimedia projects for Brazilian investigative news agency, Agencia Publica, and ran Brazil’s first cultural center for journalism. Simoes is a Columbia University J-school alum.
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