This couldn’t possibly be a push to give the federal government even more control over the housing of citizens in the name of Doing Something about Hotcoldwetdry, could it?
AOC and Bernie Sanders Aim to Tackle Housing and Climate Change in One Bill
With a sweeping legislative proposal, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are attempting to place public housing at the center of the green energy transition, tackling the twin crises of global warming and soaring housing costs.
“Public housing should be the gold standard for affordable, environmentally friendly, and safe communities,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an email. “This bill is how we ensure that.”
The Green New Deal for Public Housing aims to decarbonize all of the nation’s public housing units—and build more of them—with an investment of between $162 billion and $234 billion over the next decade. In doing so, it would avert 5.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of removing 1.26 million cars from US roads each year, while creating jobs and public health benefits.
This would put even more citizens into government housing, forgetting that quite a bit of it are cesspools of crime and urban decay. But, they want to keep the low income voters voting Democrat
Instead of allowing the nation’s public housing stock to wither away, the bill seeks to transform it. Units would not only be repaired and freed of contaminants like lead and mold, but also made efficient and green.
The first part is good, the second part is just a pipe dream, and the people who live in them couldn’t care less.
Each would be insulated and weatherized to conserve energy, as well as outfitted with fossil fuel-free electric appliances. Renewable energy would be installed on-site. And developments would be made climate-resilient with increased green space and decreased paved areas, which can help absorb heat and soak up water during heavy rains.
Who thinks that the “renewable” energy on site would be damaged heavily in the first month?
“The Green New Deal for Public Housing is going to change the game for those of us and our neighbors who are being hit hardest by the climate crisis,” said Saul Levin, legislative and political director of the progressive advocacy group Green New Deal Network.
Why don’t those groups spend their own money? Funny how they always want to spend Other People’s money, eh?
Though the bill is not expected to pass, Climate and Community Project says support to expand and improve public housing is growing. In 2021, the report notes, the House voted to repeal the Faircloth Amendment and most Democratic lawmakers supported including $60 billion for public housing in the spending package that later became the Inflation Reduction Act, though both measures ultimately failed to pass.
Really, it would be good to help the homeless, but, this is just typical Modern Socialism, and if government controls their housing government controls them. All in the name of a scam.
Our distinguished host wrote:
The larger the project, the more likely it has been that they fall into just that kind of environment.
A recent tactic in major cities has been to not allow landlords to discriminate against applicants on the basis of the source of their ability to pay the rent, primarily alimony, child support, and public housing vouchers. Property owners want tenants who can pay the rent in cash, because that normally means higher income tenants and lower crime rates. It also tends to mean tenants who are less likely to trash the place.
Louisville and Lexington had such ordinances, but the General Assembly is moving a bill through which would override those.
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