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Climate change shapes housing stability, affordability, and health. These stories explore how it impacts communities, housing systems, and the policies needed to build resilient, equitable homes.
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What NYCHA’s Heat Pump Strategy Says About the Future of Green Affordable Housing
New York City’s public housing authority plans to install 20,000 window heat pumps and 10,000 induction stoves over the next five years. The effort shows how large-scale procurement could help affordable housing providers cut emissions and lower the cost of green upgrades.
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State and Cities Advance Affordability by Lowering Utility Costs
Climate funding from the federal government has become unreliable. But state and local programs in the Northeast offer alternative ways to make homes more efficient for low-income residents and reduce their utility bills.
Fit to Live in: From Ordinances to Outcomes in Habitability, a Shelterforce webinar
What makes a home habitable? What makes habitability laws successful? In this webinar, an organizer in New Orleans and a representative from a nonprofit working with communities across the country affected by vacancy and abandonment share their perspectives.
‘We Are Forgotten Here’: As NYC Builds Seawalls, This Queens Community Feels Left Behind
A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable.
Why Habitability Is a Growing Rallying Cry
Across the country, tenants and lawmakers are pushing for better standards around mold, cooling, and more. How did we get here?
Lessons from Redlining: How We Can Prevent Climate-Driven Insurance Discrimination
As homeowners’ insurance companies and lenders increasingly factor climate risk into their business strategies, communities may see a resurgence of racial and economic exclusion that mimics redlining. But our hands aren’t tied—we can do something about it.
Harnessing the Shock of Disaster to Propel Change
Sometimes disasters open a space for bigger and faster positive change. In Lahaina, Hawai’i, after the devastating fires in 2023, community leaders built on preexisting relationships to approach housing and land in new ways.
The Climate Crisis Hits Tenants Hardest. They’re Fighting Back.
From California to North Carolina, tenants are organizing to demand protections from natural disasters.
EPA Terminates Already-Awarded Climate Funding
The agency says $20 billion in green funding for low-income communities was mismanaged and issued with political bias, but so far the EPA hasn’t produced the evidence needed to legally block the grants. Three nonprofits have filed suit.
We Need a Plan for Decarbonization That Doesn’t Displace Renters
More and more cities and states have plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in housing. Here’s how we can avoid possible harms to renters.
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a Shelterforce Webinar
What is the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and how will it benefit affordable housing residents and community development organizations?
How Can We Reform Property Insurance to Adapt to Climate Change?
Climate change is fueling more frequent and extreme disasters, and insurance companies are responding by dropping communities and raising premiums. Here’s what an equitable, reformed property insurance model would look like.
What’s Happening with the Billions in Climate Funding for Low-Income Communities?
Shelterforce breaks down the latest information on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. How can the affordable housing industry take advantage of the funding opportunities, and why are some folks worried about the fund’s rollout?