Environment

In Louisville, low-income and Black populations living in neighborhoods dealing with decades of industrial pollution are now suffering the worst public health outcomes of COVID-19.

Officials in large and small cities along the East Coast are realizing that maybe they shouldn’t rebuild on land that repeatedly floods. Instead they’re focusing on buyouts, building affordable housing on higher ground, and other mitigation efforts.

Los Angeles’ Green New Deal is an opportunity to demand the type of investment in housing required to actually address the crisis we face. It would be an awful mistake to back down.

My first reaction to the emergence of “resilience” as a lens for viewing community development was mostly informed by skepticism.

Communities need accurate maps and more access to data to increase flood resilience—but right now FEMA’s not providing that.

How can affordable housing be more resilient to extreme weather and better prepared to deal with the consequences of climate change?

Our talk with Radhika Fox, the CEO of the US Water Alliance, about water justice and ways to build stronger communities.

With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.

Throughout 2018’s Sol-2-Sol climate justice convening, indigenous people led many of the actions and activities.

Because affordable housing doesn’t yield acceptable profits to real estate investors, the only way a substantial amount of it is going to get built is if it’s publicly funded.

Against the back drop of 2017’s California wildfires, a quickly organized session took place to discuss disaster response and recovery from the perspective of being a housing organization.

The times they are a changin’, at least when it comes to San Francisco and Berkeley housing. What accounts for the pro-housing movement’s growing strength? Three factors, one of which may involve the president.