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Home for Christmas: A Camden family moves in, with help
CAMDEN It wasn t the lit-up and decorated Christmas tree, or the presents at its base, wrapped and ready for little hands to open them, that got to Maxiell Acosta. Nor was it the bedspread with pretty pink frills in her daughter s room, or the musical mobile above her son s nursery.
While all of those things were loved and appreciated by her and her husband, what made the mother of two become emotional was the dresser in the main bedroom.
She hadn t had a dresser since she was a young child, she explained; she d moved around as a child and as an adult, her apartment was too small for one.
“Sometimes I wish I could move to another state where there’s no water around,” she said.
The water is a constant, creeping threat in Atlantic City, where the sea level rise has caused an increase in sunny day flooding. These days, it only takes a particularly high tide, which reaches more than a foot higher than it did a century ago, for water to spill onto the city’s streets.
As many as 1,640 affordable housing units in New Jersey are vulnerable to coastal flooding at least once per year, according to an analysis led by scientists at Climate Central, a Princeton-based non-advocacy research and news group.