Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises - Couverture souple

Bourland, Dana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164283128X ISBN 13 : 9781642831283

Editeur : Island Press, 2021

Synopsis

US cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contributes significantly to the changing climate, with residential buildings accounting for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. US housing is not only unhealthy for the planet, it is putting the physical and financial health of residents at risk. Our housing system means that a renter working 40 hours a week and earning minimum wage cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any US county.

In Gray to Green Communities, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a gray housing model to a green model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. She demonstrates that we do not have to choose between protecting our planet and providing housing affordable to all.

Bourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, a national community development intermediary. Her work resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing which was designed to deliver measurable health, economic, and environmental benefits.

The book opens with the potential of green affordable housing, followed by the problems that it is helping to solve, challenges in the approach that need to be overcome, and recommendations for the future of green affordable housing. Gray to Green Communities brings together the stories of those who benefit from living in green affordable housing and examples of Green Communities' developments from across the country. Bourland posits that over the next decade we can deliver on the human right to housing while reaching a level of carbon emissions reductions agreed upon by scientists and demanded by youth.

Gray to Green Communities will empower and inspire anyone interested in the future of housing and our planet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dana Bourland is Vice President of the Environment Program at The JPB Foundation. Formerly Bourland was Vice President of Green Initiatives for Enterprise Community Partners where she led environmental strategy for the national organization. She developed and oversaw all aspects of Enterprise's award-winning Green Communities program including the creation of the Green Communities Criteria, the Green Communities Offset Fund and Enterprise's Multifamily Retrofit Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Island Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164283128X
• ISBN 13: 9781642831283
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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