I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story.

There's a big fight happening across the country.

It's a fight about one of the most basic ideas in our society.

Who gets to decide where we live and city council meetings are

getting tense. Because if we're gonna be real about this, let's be real about it.

There's a lot to be frustrated about. On one hand

there's not enough affordable housing in the US. How are we going to afford to live in the

city if we don't build housing? On the other hand there's a growing risk that homes could get hit with a disaster

as the climate keeps changing. People are going to die. People are going to die.

As floods and droughts and wildfires get worse, cities and towns are facing a tough question.

Are there places where new homes shouldn't be built?

Rebecca Hersher and Lauren Summer from NPR's Climate Dust have been digging into what this means

for where we live.

Rebecca, Lauren, welcome to the Sunday story. Hey, it's great to be here. Yeah, thanks.

Climate change is driving more extreme weather on all ends of the spectrum. It seems like you know every other day there's some

sort of weather record being broken and and you're just hearing about it more and more.

Yeah, and you know there are millions of homes at risk from climate change,

but then there's the question of where to build new homes.

Right, so on that sort of new home building front in city council meetings and planning board meetings and

other frankly kind of boring public forums where these decisions actually get

made about where to build homes. We are hearing people on opposite

sides of the country expressing really similar concerns and fears and hopes.

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