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What would a Green New Deal for NYCHA look like?
Sorely needed maintenance, energy retrofits, climate proofing, and good quality jobs for residents, for starters.

@DianaBudds' headline and kicker say it all. And thanks for quotes on just how brilliantly this policy connects dots
@DianaBudds And thanks for including my history take. I've been thinking a lot lately about the public housing road not taken in the New Deal. NYC had already developed beautiful non-market housing forms, and housing advocates like Gail Radford were touring Red Vienna and German cities
Lots of great material on this in this Gail Radford book

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
And for more on NYC context, and the great co-ops and non-profit garden apartments that might have defined new public housing. But alas the 30s right successfully blocked public housing from being lovely enough to compete w middle class private housing
cup.columbia.edu/book/a-history…
Another nice take, from Peter Dreier, that leans into the Vienna counterfactual 😭

prospect.org/infrastructure…
Also @ceaweaver I still need to take your suggestion and read Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer
goodreads.com/en/book/show/6…
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
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It’s happening. Today @AOC and @BernieSanders are launching the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act. It’s good.

Over at @DataProgress we researched the bill, our first big collab w @SC2_Collab and @McHargCenter. It would slash carbon and inequality

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I’m thrilled to be quoted in this piece trying to grapple w how great green investment in public housing could be in US: “Who knows what Americans will contribute by really taking public housing seriously, by investing in it seriously, and by making it green and healthy and safe”
Also thank you @AlexCKaufman for going deep on how successful NYCHA’s last foray into green industrial policy was. Public housing has led on green innovation before, and it could do even more in the decade ahead
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
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Holy shit! Even before A Planet to Win officially goes on sale, with our proposal for public rideshare minivans to plug public transit gaps in cities, suburbs, towns, and reservations, Berlin is introducing "dynamically routed on-demand shared rides"

viavan.com/berlin-launch/
Obviously we'll have to get more details as this rolls out (sorry). In A Planet to Win, our inspiration was Helsinki's Kutsuplus program, which was killed by austerity but actually showed a powerful alternative to both Lyft/Uber and private cars

citylab.com/transportation…
Creative, dynamic public agencies are the ones who will revolutionize no-carbon mobility and freedom, bc that's what sophisticated public transit is for

So-called mobility companies like Uber/Lyft are just for profit

h/t @triofrancos + @zeithistoriker
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
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To have cheap, abundant, no-carbon energy, we need massive, federal green investment. We need a Green New Deal

That's my big takeaway from this fantastic episode featuring @russellgold. But there are three more key points I want to draw out

short 🧵
FIRST, @CleanGridView and @JigarShahDC get it: to build the big transmission grid we need, only the federal government can lead the charge. Private investors just can't do it

But everyone skates over @rehundt's reporting in A Crisis Wasted

acrisiswasted.com
There was a specific reason that Obama's advisors managed to block him from funding massive clean energy transition grid: NEOLIBERALISM in its most garish form

Hundt makes v compelling argument that gov't missed change to capitalize a green bank to fund big transmission
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