This Week in Green Social Housing Despite the fact that they are home to over 1.6 million Californians, mobile homes are often overlooked in the discussions about housing. There are probably a multitude of reasons for this: mobile home residents tend to be disproportionately older and poorer; they are typically not in urban centers; and […]

This Week in Green Social Housing Last week I wrote about some of the failures and inherent challenges of for-profit affordable housing (drawing heavily from a new report by Urban Habitat and the East Bay Community Law Center). If you recall, there’s a loophole in housing policy that makes it so publicly-subsidized affordable housing units

This Week in Green Social Housing Did you know that a significant number of subsidized affordable housing are owned for profit? In the Bay Area, about half of the homes that receive public subsidies for affordable housing are owned by for-profit corporations or nonprofits with for-profit characteristics (those that are technically not-for-profit, but functionally do

This Week in Green Social Housing Yesterday, AOC and Bernie Sanders re-introduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing. In a remarkable press conference, they made the strong case that we need to simultaneously tackle the twin crisis of climate change and housing affordability. This is a sweeping proposal to invest up to $234 billion

This Week in Green Social Housing This year, the CA GND Coalition is going to be endorsing a slate of legislation and ballot measures that we can use to talk about the intersections between housing and climate justice. While we’re just coming off the primary election, and November may seem like a long way away

This Week in Green Social Housing On February 14th, the Concord City Council voted 4-1 to approve a rent stabilization and just cause ordinance. This is a huge victory, and a testament to the power of campaigns that persist and fight on despite short-term defeats and staunch opposition  — it is the result of over

This Week in Green Social Housing In climate advocacy circles, most of the focus is spent (understandably) on where our energy is coming from: clean and renewable vs polluting fossil fuels. But for most people, the main way they experience and interact with the energy system is in their home. Energy is felt through the

This Week in Green Social Housing This week’s newsletter comes courtesy of our very own GND State Organizer, Sim Bilal. Sim has been on the ground in LA and San Diego in the past few weeks witnessing the impacts of the atmospheric rivers. He shares some of his reflections below: This past week, California got

This Week in Green Social Housing In the past month, two new reports have been released by close allies and partners that highlight the risks and challenges at the core of where housing and climate collide: that investments in decarbonizing our homes will lead to displacement, rent hikes, and gentrification. I’ve written previously about the

This Week in Green Social Housing The pandemic introduced a number of unprecedented social safety net provisions, including an eviction moratorium and rental relief programs. And like other temporary measures, many warned about what would happen once those protections ended. Those warnings were right: as eviction moratoriums phased out in 2022 and 2023, evictions have