Research
Housing & Communities
Housing represents one of the most visceral places where people feel climate investments. Our housing work focuses on both decarbonizing the built environment while also ensuring that tenants and homeowners can stay in their homes with interventions including building a tenant’s climate agenda and articulating new proposals for home insurance.
Featured Research
Shared Fates
Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and …
Housing & Communities
Shared Fates: Rising Insurance Costs in Louisiana
To understand how the home insurance crisis is affecting households across the state, we compared price quotes for a hypothetical private insurance policy that we standardized …
Housing & Communities
Tenant Protections for Climate Justice
The green transition is here, but tenants are at risk of being left behind. Without strong tenant protections, they could face higher rents, eviction from energy …
Housing & Communities
Homes Act: Analysis of Legislative Impact
The Homes Act, federal legislation authored by Senator Tina Smith (MN) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), would establish a housing development authority to finance, repair, and …
Housing & Communities
Memo: Key research findings on establishing a national Green Social Housing Development Authority
The only way out of our housing and climate crises is through a massive investment in housing as a public good: developing a national green social …
Housing & Communities
Seize the Future
The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide. Progressives must put forward policies …
Global Systems & Policy
How Do We Fix Public Insurance Programs?
Hurricane season has begun in the U.S. – and is predicted to be “extraordinary.” Wildfire season has started and thousands of acres have already burned. These …
Housing & Communities
Disaster Response and Recovery Systems are Failing Black and Brown Communities in Texas
Andrew Barley is co-director of rebuild and voter engagement at West Street Recovery, a horizontally–structured and worker–directed disaster recovery nonprofıt based in Northeast Houston, Texas. Barley …
Housing & Communities
Green Social Housing at Scale
Every day, millions of Americans struggle to find housing they can afford. Climate change makes finding stable housing even more precarious for low-income renters in the …
Housing & Communities
Housing & Communities Researchers
Ruthy Gourevitch
Daniel Aldana Cohen
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley,
Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, UC Berkeley
Mark Paul
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Michael Esposito
University of Minnesota
Nick Graetz
University of Minnesota
Sarah Knuth
Geography,
Durham University
Moira Birss
Amee Raval
Sonal Jessel
Building Power Resource Center
Bomee Jung
Cadence OneFive
Zac Taylor
Delft University of Technology
