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
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
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
Winning durable change requires a policy platform that tackles the root causes of domestic economic insecurity and global instability. A record number of people can’t afford …
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
The home insurance crisis is a threat to financial stability
The United States is in the throes of another devastating housing crisis. Financial institutions are accumulating risk at an alarming pace, and regulators and policymakers are …
Housing & Communities
We Demand Green Social Housing
In California, every day we see how the affordable housing crisis and climate crisis are linked. Rent hikes that outpace our wages, rising utility bills that …
Housing & Communities
Building the Future
As the U.S. housing crisis deepens and the impact of climate change makes it harder for tenants to find safe housing options, the demand for bold …
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
Princeton University
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
Jayson Toweh