The Department of Housing and Urban Development in January set aside $1 billion in grants in 13 states to build stronger dams, levees, and drainage systems to help communities struggling with the effects of rising seas.
Among those grants, $48 million, which must be spent by 2022, is the first of its kind, allocated to pick up and move the entire community of the sinking, salty Isle de Jean Charles to a drier place....
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0503/First-US-climate-refugees-get-48-million-to-move
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