Heat Waves, Extreme Weather, And Air Pollution Are Even Harder To Bear Without Shelter

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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

People experiencing homelessness could see “greater rates of illness and death due to increases in heat waves, air pollution, storms and floods, and vector-borne diseases resulting from climate change.”

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