The Land Rush

There Goes the Neighborhood

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4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Haitian migrants fled a violent dictatorship and built a new community in Miami’s Little Haiti, far from the coast and on land that luxury developers didn’t want. But with demand for up-market apartments surging, their neighborhood is suddenly attractive to builders. That’s in part because it sits on high ground, in a town concerned about sea level rise. But also, because Miami is simply running out of land to build upon. In the final episode of our series on “climate gentrification,” WLRN reporter Nadege Greene asks one man what it’s like to be in the path of a land rush. Before you listen, check out parts one and two. Reported and produced by Kai Wright and Nadege Green. This is the final installment of a three-part series produced in partnership with WLRN in Miami. WNYC’s health coverage is supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Working to build a Culture of Health that ensures everyone in America has a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. More at RWJF.org.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Kai, host of the first season of There Goes the Neighborhood,
0:05.5	and I'm here to say, we haven't forgotten about you. We've been hard at work on a collaboration
0:10.5	with Miami's public radio station, WLRN, and which we've been looking at the relationship
0:15.8	between gentrification and climate change. We made a three-part series for our podcast, The Stakes, and I want to share it with all of you, too.
0:25.6	So here's the final episode in our series.
0:28.6	And in this installment, WLRN reporter Nadegh Green takes us back to Miami's Little Haiti.
0:45.3	And Kai Wright, and these are the states.
0:48.7	In this episode, the Land Rush.
0:55.5	So, Nadegh, how did this neighborhood come to be?
0:56.9	Where did Little Haiti come from?
0:59.8	Little Haiti wasn't always known as Little Haiti.
1:03.9	It was known as Lemon City, which was a historic African-American community.
1:05.9	Part of it was known as Little River.
1:13.0	It became Little Haiti after the first large wave of Haitian migrants started coming to Miami in the 70s.
1:21.9	At the time, Haitians were leaving Haiti in droves because they were fleeing the violent and oppressive dictatorships of Francois Duvalier, better known as Papadoc.
1:27.9	Democracy is a word. It's only a word. It is a philosophy, it's a conception.
1:32.0	And then his son took over, Jean-Claude Duvalier, or baby doc.
1:34.9	And I can't say this enough.
1:37.2	They were brutal, brutal dictators.
1:42.1	They had a crew of militiamen known as the Tonto Makut who would carry out much of the violence in Haiti.
1:43.5	And many of the people were fleeing, and they were coming to Miami because Miami was close.
1:48.9	They ended up in this neighborhood, what would be known as Little Haiti.
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