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NYC flooding renews calls for safer basement apartments

For residents of basement apartments, which are a largely illegal and unregulated housing option in New York, storms like the one that swept through the New York metro area on Friday can be deadly.

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Study gets EPA grant to look at Homewood, Hill District flooding

Researchers in Pittsburgh received about $1.35 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week to study basement flooding in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

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