Tackle the United States’ housing and climate crises at the same time – with a Green New Deal for housing. Anyone hoping to become the Democratic nominee should be able to answer the question: what will your climate plan do for the housing crisis? Projects of new and retrofitted affordable housing in the US and around the world are already pioneering green housing techniques. And it calls for green upgrades to existing public housing, getting rid of natural gas and toxic mold. Is it really so impractical to link climate policy and housing policy – the climate movement and the housing movement – around solutions that would tackle both crises at once?

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2019 09:56 UTC