More than 80,000 homes on Staten Island, in southeast Queens and in the suburbs east of New York City could be lost to floods over the next 15 years, according to a new report that serves as a warning of how climate change could make the housing crisis even worse.The report, written by the Regional Plan Association, notes that New York's housing shortage could be pushed to 1.2 million homes due to the inability to develop land prone to flooding. More than half of the 82,000 at-risk homes are on Long Island, including ocean-facing towns such as Babylon and Islip. Cities along the Long Island Sound, as well as the New York City neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, are also vulnerable. The threats of global warming mean that local officials need to “rethink what a conventional home looks like,” Max Besbris, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told The New York Times. “That means denser housing, more energy-efficient housing, and that probably means giving up on that suburban ideal of a stand-alone home with a white picket fence."