Affordable homes, climate investments, and good jobs don't have to be pitted against each other. In fact, in NYC @mayor.nyc.gov has a a huge opportunity to advance all three together, and local examples to build off.
Me and @batul.bsky.social wrote how in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Writing about the proposed mixed-status rule
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HUD’s proposed rule will instigate mass homelessness for mixed-status families AND destabilize the entire subsidy system.
HUD public comment CAN have an impact, even in Trump admins!
take just 5 minutes to fill out this letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...
NYC's public housing has been driving innovation in decarb technologies, and now thousands of people living there will get reliable heating & cooling, lower utility bills, and the ability to control the temps in their own apartments.
Green economic populism at work.
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I have a new piece out today describing how the insurance industry's profit motives conflict with our need for protection & outlining the Disaster Insurance for All proposal from @cplusc.bsky.social in #TheRooftop, @futurelandhousing.bsky.social's housing blog.
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Text reads: ICE OUT of everywhere—solidarity with Minnesota! No work, no school, no shopping. Oakland march and rally, Fruitvale BART at 4:00pm, January 23rd.
Ni aquí ni allà, ¡la migra pasará—solidaridad con Minnesota! Pausa el trabajo, la escuela, y las compras. Oakland marcha y manifestación Fruitvale BART, 14:00, 23 de Enero.
🚨🚨 TOMORROW: ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE 🔥🧊
We’ll rally and march at 4:00 PM at Fruitvale BART to demand an end to ICE and their brutalization of our neighborhoods and communities.
¡Ni aquí ni allà la migra pasara! Oakland marcha y manifestación Fruitvale BART 16:00
I'm thrilled to share this episode of the @obi-belonging.bsky.social's Real Solutions podcast, in which Sierra Kos of @weathersurvivors.bsky.social & I discuss climate-related disasters & solutions to increase community resilience & household financial safety nets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
"I think that the task of building a climate movement is part and parcel of the task of building left political power and social power and organized working-class power more broadly."
Compelling words from @triofrancos.bsky.social in @thenation.com with @learning2live.bsky.social and Andreas Malm
Pledging to address the escalating cost of home insurance is a way Dems can demonstrate that they’re willing to challenge the profiteers making life more expensive, while addressing the impacts & causes of climate change, @aaronregunberg.bsky.social & I write newrepublic.com/article/2044...
"He rolled his eyes, pulled faces, refused to make eye contact with those addressing him directly, had numerous side conversations, and simply walked away (at one point with food)." @maggietokudahall.bsky.social reports back from yesterday's Flock debacle: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/whipped-votes/
We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.
Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.
The fact that utilities are ecstatic about the new load growth tells you everything you need to know
NEW INVESTIGATION
California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030
A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants
Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
Tomorrow activists are launching a novel rent debt strike against one of the largest corporate landlords in the country.
I report on their strategy and national goals
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
I think there are 10 renters, but the point still stands. And I think it's telling that the renter's caucus didn't endorse the big tenant protection bill this year (AB 1157)
This is a wild story. Bass tries to insert last-minute state bill to significantly weaken the *LA voter-approved* Measure ULA, then withdraws it less than 48 hrs later.
Real estate & co (Howard Jarvis, CBRT) are pissed about ULA and doing whatever they can to stop it
TODAY!!! Come hear @alybatt.bsky.social talk about her brilliant new book!
Vintage UAW poster from the 1950s in yellow, orange, black, and white. The text reads: "Labor's answer to automation: less hours, more pay." The image shows a human hand pressing a button on a machine.
Labor's answer to automation: less hours, more pay.
Undated UAW poster from the 1950s.
📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social
It's not just that data centers are driving up bills -- we are underestimating the impact of Big Tech's growing ownership of power plants and share of the wholesale electricity market
The climate crisis is a catastrophe we cannot afford to ignore, means-test, or isolate as an “add-on” to other problems. Workers and tenants across the country understand that, and are advancing green economic populism at home and at work.
So fun to get to dig into it w/ @batul.bsky.social.
Thats not to say there haven't been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited. But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good. The number of microwaves has required me to upgrade my restaurant's electrical system and I now have a small nuclear reactor installed in the parking lot.
AI is the new microwave.
Literally
In CA's CEQA wars budget deal there was a last minute addition of an exemption for 'advanced manufacturing.'
A few weeks later, California Forever announces they are going to build "largest site for advanced manufacturing in North America."
Hmmm... 🤔 seems like something for @gilduran.com
Wrote about the connection between mass deportations and evictions in this week's newsletter.
ICE raids and deportations are causing families to fall behind on rent. And landlords are using the threat to force out tenants.
“This climate populism message is one that we really need to lean into,” the Arizona Democrat said at the Bloomberg Green Seattle conference on Tuesday.
Story @bloomberg.com with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Evictions and deportations are both about forcibly removing people from their home. Landlord in Oakland (Darrick Chavis) threatens both.
