The Case for a Green New Deal for Public Housing

Climate and Community Project Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative 2024-03-03

The need for a Green New Deal for Public Housing has never been more urgent. Our new analysis finds that the United States has lost fully one-quarter of its public housing units in the past decade to demolition, neglect, and privatization and other conversions from Section 9. The biggest concentration of public housing in New York City is crumbling. New York City alone is facing a capital backlog of nearly $80 billion. The United States will lose even more units in the decade ahead if it doesn't act now. Meanwhile, low-income people cannot find affordable places to live in any county in the country. We cannot afford to let public housing collapse, and the window for saving this precious resource is closing.Saving public housing will energize the battle for housing as a human right and for subsidized housing protected from markets as a crucial pillar of social and climate justice.The Green New Deal for Public Housing is the type of transformative housing and climate policy that will deliver the long overdue capital improvements that public housing residents deserve and ensure public housing can thrive in the long term. In this report, we outline the Green New Deal for Public Housing approach and its benefits and then provide an overview of key policy and decarbonization updates in the public housing field.

Community and Economic Development; Energy and Environment; Housing and Homelessness; report

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Copyright 2024 by Climate and Community Project and Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative.

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