Divesting from Policing and Investing in Green, Healthy Schools
It’s no secret that the US public school system is crumbling, underfunded, and understaffed. This is particularly true in the Black, brown, and working class communities …
Our Research
Climate and Community Institute (CCI) creates research that connects issues that dominate our political economy directly with the climate crisis. We lay the groundwork for ambitious and creative climate goals in the near term, and build the vision for a just, decarbonized future.
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 …
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 …
We Demand Green Social Housing (California GND Coalition)
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 …
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 …
Exporting Extinction: How the International Financial System Constrains Biodiverse Futures
This major report sets out to answer the question of why governments in the Global South have routinely failed to achieve biodiversity goals and targets. Rather …
Who’s left out of the Florida insurance crisis conversation
MacKenzie Marcelin is a Florida resident and the climate justice director with Florida Rising, a grassroots organization that works with Black and brown low-income communities across …
Deconstructing Gas Industry Propaganda
What is gas industry propaganda? Gas is a huge industry. It encompasses companies that extract gas (e.g. through drilling or hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking), …
Are premium price increases really a way to reduce climate risk exposure?
Home insurance prices are increasing in advanced economies around the world, at a rate that is making insurance unaffordable in countries such as Australia, Canada, the …
How the insurance crisis threatens affordable housing development
Brendan Mitchell and Seana O’Shaugnessy both help run non-profits focused on affordable housing preservation, development and management, though they do so from opposite sides of the …