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Low-carbon electricity, deep electrification-focused renovations, and smaller, electric new homes are part of decarbonization pathways for the US residential sector. Our new paper out in @NatureClimate with @EdgarHertwich @NREL rdcu.be/cSWD6 doi.org/10.1038/s41558…
@NatureClimate @EdgarHertwich @NREL Clean electricity and renovations are the two big strategies with biggest impact at a national level.
But further reductions come from building electric, smaller new homes.
But further reductions come from building electric, smaller new homes.
@NatureClimate @EdgarHertwich @NREL Speeding up the demolition and construction of housing increases emissions (despite more efficient new homes), due to embodied emissions in construction and new single-family homes being a lot larger than old ones (curbing the efficiency benefits of new homes)
“Cities are places of opportunity and cohesion, and people want to live there. Yet our planning and politics make this far too difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic is the moment to change that.” My piece @globeandmail: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… 1/
Cities aren’t dead. More of us should live there. 2/
Our society has experienced dramatic demographic changes, and planning policy isn’t catching up. 3/
In our paper just published in @EnvSciTech, with @EdgarHertwich & Ken Gillingham, we show implications of US federal housing/tax policies on single- and multifamily housing supply, with implications for residential energy and emissions, a🧵doi.org/10.1021/acs.es… #housingtwitter
@EnvSciTech @EdgarHertwich 2/ We look for effects of three federal policy changes affecting housing supply, the public housing moratorium in 1973, Tax Reform Act 1986, and Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act on the single/multifamily share of new housing
3/ In short, the PHM stopped federally funded construction of new public housing, TRA 86 reduced the tax benefits of investing in multifamily (wrt single-family), FIRREA 89 made mortgages much more expensive for multifamily than single-family
One of the, big important ideas: the Guarantee. @miabirdsong @SolanaRice @JessLivMo @taraghuveer @streuhaft are visionary thinkers behind 4 campaigns built on guarantees: housing, jobs, family care + income. Now at @Netroots_Nation #NN20 #Guarantees4Life app.socio.events/NjE1Nw/Agenda/…
Visionary founder of @LiberationIn is moderating, reminding us the stakes: if we do nothing, Black and LatinX wealth be $0 by 2050 without big changes to the way capitalism works. #NN20 #Guarantees4Life
#HomesGuarantee “we live in the richest country in the history of the world, we can and should guarantee housing” says @taraghuveer #NN20 #guarantees4life
