06/01/2026
MIAMI — By the time Latonya Floyd came outside, the photographer’s lens was already pointed toward her family’s home.
There was “no knock, no hello,” she said.
When she asked what he was doing, he replied that he was “just getting pictures of the property,” for his boss, a real estate investor.
The Floyds had lived in that house for three generations, through racial uprisings in the 1960s, ’80s, and in 2020, the crack co***ne epidemic, and all that came with being called “the hood.” They were not selling.
Soon after, her parents installed the fence she’d long asked for.
Before, neighbors cut through the yard on their way to church, kids drifted between houses without knocking, and Sunday dinners stretched across porches and into the street. Now, a locked gate stands where people once walked freely.
What felt like rudeness that day was part of something larger and tied to climate change.
What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now the city’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built.
