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NEW: Housing is unaffordable for half of renters and a quarter of homeowners. Our brief with @periumass.bsky.social shows how the federal government could expand the supply of permanently affordable green social housing. climateandcommunity.org/research/the...
The Green New Deal for Public Schools Act would invest $1.6 trillion over 10 years to provide healthy, green upgrades to every K-12 public school in the nation while tackling educational, environmental, and racial inequity. 🧵
Senator Ed MarkeyAcross the country, kids are trying to learn in buildings with broken heat, leaky roofs, and hazardous ventilation systems. I’m proud to introduce the Green New Deal for Public Schools Act with @jayapal.house.gov to reinvest in our students, our planet, and our future.
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New Brief with @periumass.bsky.social: The Safe Housing Foundation could expand and improve housing choice vouchers while delinking poor and working families’ energy bills from the costs of expanding clean energy and modernizing the grid. climateandcommunity.org/research/tow...
NEW: Most renters are cost burdened, spending at least 30% of their income on housing. Congress should work to pass a universal cap on annual rent increases at 3% or .75% of the local Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower. climateandcommunity.org/research/nat...
Last year, we published a brief with @dataforprogress.org showing that: 🍎 66% of NYers polled support the creation of municipal grocery stores in NYC 🥕 85% of NYers are paying more for groceries and food compared to 2024 🥚 91% of NYers are concerned about how inflation impacts grocery costs (1/2)
Mayor Zohran Kwame MamdaniAt our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
Meta’s Hyperion data center project is a stunning example of what the state is willing to trade away in backroom deals—tax revenue for public goods, stable rents, affordable electricity, and environmental safety. Our report on AI shows what Big Tech wins in the absence of democratic planning:
AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and PlanetThe data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.orgJustin Hendrix"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."
10 takeaways on building solidarity across the transportation supply chain from workers who are actually doing it, from Nevada's lithium frontlines to Amazon's delivery routes: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/barriers-a...
Barriers and Opportunities for Supply Chain SolidarityVoices from the frontlinesclimatecommunityinstitute.substack.comToday, we're releasing three additional briefs as part of our collaboration with @periumass.bsky.social, which propose creating a Safe Housing Foundation, advancing national rent control, and establishing a Social Housing Development Authority: climateandcommunity.org/tag/game-cha...
Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America Archives - Climate and Community Instituteclimateandcommunity.orgClimate and Community InstituteWithout an insurance system for the many, only the wealthy few are likely to remain solvent as climate-driven disasters increase. Read our policy brief produced in collaboration with @periumass.bsky.social on how the US can equitably spread the costs & benefits of a stable disaster insurance system:
Another round of intense rainfall threatens to overwhelm New York City's outdated infrastructure and put lives at risk. In a new @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social interview with CCI Strategic Co-Director @aldasky.bsky.social, @ericklinenberg.bsky.social reflects on cloudburst management in the metropolis:
How to Handle a Rain BombEric Klinenberg and Daniel Aldana Cohen discuss flash flooding and sponge infrastructure in New York Citynycpolicyforum.substack.comWithout an insurance system for the many, only the wealthy few are likely to remain solvent as climate-driven disasters increase. Read our policy brief produced in collaboration with @periumass.bsky.social on how the US can equitably spread the costs & benefits of a stable disaster insurance system:
National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing - Climate and Community InstituteThe Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no …climateandcommunity.orgMoratoria are one of few levers of democratic intervention able to pause Al data center developments. We hope they are a step toward more deliberate governance and the beginning of a conversation around reorienting public investments toward critical social infrastructure rather than private profit.
More Perfect UnionNY Governor Kathy Hochul has just made New York the first state with a hyperscale data center moratorium. Hochul signed an executive order instituting a one-year ban on data centers over 50 megawatts rather than signing legislation passed by the legislature that also included a one-year ban.
The climate crisis has caused home insurance premiums to skyrocket across the country, particularly in California. States should establish Housing Resilience Agencies—new entities to run housing risk-reduction work and home disaster insurance provision with transparency, democracy, and equity.
Washington MonthlyJane Kim's "Natural Disaster Insurance for All" has thrilled California voters and alarmed the industry. But do the numbers add up?
As @mjhaugen.bsky.social discussed with @premthakker.bsky.social, the buildout of data centers has coincided with both weakened environmental regulation and enforcement. We cover this in more detail here: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/ai-first
ReutersElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
We interviewed 15 organizers in the transportation supply chain to identify what makes solidarity across various stages of the supply chain possible, and what stands in its way: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/barriers-a...
Barriers and Opportunities for Supply Chain SolidarityVoices from the frontlinesclimatecommunityinstitute.substack.comThe Trump administration has repeatedly invoked the need to power AI data centers as a reason to boost fossil fuels. We cover this in a recent report: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/ai-first
AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and PlanetThe data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.orgInside Climate NewsBig Tech told Trump they need a lot of power to win the AI race. Trump said his administration is fast-tracking approvals in “a matter of weeks” for behind-the-meter energy facilities to power data centers. But it’s not the only green light companies need.
Individual households can't face mounting disaster risks alone. In @liberalcurrents.com's The Reconstruction Papers, CCI's Moira Birss argues for a national disaster insurance program that shares risk fairly, keeping people safely and affordably housed rather than prioritizing insurer profits:
The Reconstruction PapersThe Reconstruction Papers is available for pre-order in the US Pre-Order Now! For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white whale was the government the New Deal and the Great Society had…www.liberalcurrents.com