The Shrinking Geography of Opportunity in Metro America, May 10, 2022 By Thai Le, Edward Muña, Sarah Treuhaft, and Rasheedah Phillips* https://nationalequityatlas.org/shrinking-geography-of-opportunity Introduction Findings Renters in Metro America Face Shrinking Maps of Affordable Neighborhoods Black Households Have the Fewest Neighborhood Choices Black Renters Experienced the Steepest Declines in Affordable Neighborhoods The Majority of Neighborhoods Affordable to Low-Income Households Are Lower …
Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air, 50 years after it ended
Boyle Heights, a heavily Latino area in Los Angeles, has one of the highest pollution scores in California By Darryl Fears, NYT — decades of transportation investment and funding discrimination too! Decades of federal housing discrimination did not only depress home values, lower job opportunities and spur poverty in communities deemed undesirable because of race. It’s why 45 million Americans are …
NYC’s First Net Zero Community Brings Housing to Storm-Ravaged Neighborhood
CityLab, NYC’s First Net Zero Community Brings Housing to Storm-Ravaged Neighborhood A swath of oceanfront land in the Rockaways will become a test bed for climate and economic policies, promising affordable housing and other amenities to a region hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy. By Aysha Diallo, March 4, 2022 Along 116 acres of vacant oceanfront land, development has begun on what could become …
Unleash the duplex to fix the housing crisis
State officials should look to New Jersey to see how zoning roles that allow “light touch density” can bring down housing costs — if local leaders allow it. Emily HamiltonMarch 1, 2022, Bloomberg City Lab California’s Senate Bill 9, which took effect in January, brings new hope to California’s housing crisis. This state law circumvents local zoning rules by allowing owners of single-family homes to …
Virginia family gets keys to Habitat for Humanity’s first 3D-printed home in the US
Timelapse video shows construction of 3D-printed home (CNN)One Virginia family received the keys to their new 3D-printed home in time for Christmas.The home is Habitat for Humanity’s first 3D-printed home in the nation, according to a Habitat news release.Janet V. Green, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg, told CNN it partnered with Alquist, a 3D printing company, earlier this year to …
Fare free or zero fare transit could address equity and ridership issues. Here’s how some cities are making it happen.
INNOVATIONS TRANSPORTATION https://www.planning.org/planning/2021/fall/can-zero-fare-transit-work/ Also: By 1980, there were more than 40,000 miles of road in the interstate system (most 90% covered by federal investment). Highway engineers have since added more than 5,000 miles aimed at speeding up traffic and easing congestion, especially for suburban commuters (with federal participation at the 80% level)…in the first 20 years of the interstate highway system, …
Communities of majority Black, Indigenous or other people of color, as well as low-income communities, are already producing the highest numbers and ratios of affordable units: Upzoning increases gentrification in these communities
The report found that communities that are made up of majority Black, Indigenous or other people of color, as well as low-income communities, are already producing the highest number of affordable units as well as the highest ratio of affordable to market-rate units without rezoning. In comparison, the largest number of communities with an affordable housing ratio lower than 19% …
Architects and Households Declare: We need a just and fair transition to limiting our emissions in a way that doesn’t exclude households unable to pay or push even more people into fuel poverty. Demand is growing to see Net Zero carbon emissions delivered.
Households Declare Is a New Campaign to Fix Housing: This British campaign should be copied in North America. Households Declare! is demanding the housing stock in the United Kingdom be fixed. Its mission: “We need a just and fair transition to limiting our emissions in a way that doesn’t exclude households unable to pay or push even more people into …
An Equity-Based Primer on Paying to Pollute
Nuts, Bolts, and Pitfalls of Carbon Pricing While carbon pricing and emissions trading schemes have been a part of climate policy discussions for decades, the concept has gained popularity in recent years. The term usually refers to two common policy mechanisms, “cap and trade” and a “carbon tax,” which are market-based measures that create a carbon market by putting a …
Poorer households should get free heat pumps, say experts: Help is needed to replace gas boilers with low-carbon alternatives, warn builders, energy firms and charities
Fiona Harvey Guardian UK, Wed 16 Jun 2021 Households on low incomes should be supplied with free heat pumps in order to kickstart the market for low-carbon heating equipment and meet the UK’s climate targets, experts have told the government. Heat pumps can currently cost thousands of pounds to install, but the more that are installed, the faster that cost is likely …