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Review: In ‘Razing Liberty Square,’ climate gentrification scatters a Black community in Miami as developers move in

Liberty Square sits inland on some of the highest ground in the Miami area, which has made the area a target of climate gentrification, as the sea levels rise closer to the beach.

The documentary “Razing Liberty Square” looks at the central dilemma facing a Black community located just a few miles from downtown Miami, where the sea levels are rising. Further inland is the neighborhood of Liberty City, which is the highest and driest in the area.

Home to a close-knit but rundown public housing community called Liberty Square, it has been largely ignored for decades and left without adequate resources. But with beachfront properties being swallowed up by the ocean, Liberty Square,

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