{"id":7730,"date":"2022-04-25T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:43:17","slug":"how-to-fight-the-affordable-housing-and-climate-crises-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7730","title":{"rendered":"How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The nation\u2019s affordable housing crisis has gotten some semblance of attention \u2014 with journalists writing stories on the rising cost of rent<\/a>, the scarce supply of new housing<\/a>, the looming threat of eviction<\/a> \u2014 butone aspect of the crisis has gone consistently overlooked. On top of the severe housing shortage that currently exists, nearly 6 million homes<\/a> nationwide have moderate to serious home health hazards. They require repairs that, if left ignored, will make them uninhabitable, and eventually they\u2019ll disappear from the market altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Low Income Housing Coalition, a research and advocacy group, estimates<\/a> a shortage of 7 million affordable housing units for low-income renters, but those figures don\u2019t account for all the existing affordable units that stand at risk of demolition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issues like lead paint, leaky roofs, and knob-and-tube wiring don\u2019t just leave tenants and homeowners in substandard, unsafe housing.They also leave families \u2014 mostly poor families \u2014 shut out from energy efficiency programs the federal government already funds to upgrade homes. Due to inflexible program restrictions, homes with outstanding repairs aren\u2019t eligible for existing weatherization subsidies, despite those families arguably needing them the most. Addressing this problem could help solve both the affordable housing and the climate crisis at once.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23025378\/energy-efficiency-utilities-repairs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The nation\u2019s affordable housing crisis has gotten some semblance of attention \u2014 with journalists writing stories on the rising cost of rent, the scarce supply of new housing, the looming threat of eviction \u2014 but one aspect of the crisis has gone consistently overlooked. On top of the severe housing shortage that currently exists, nearly 6 million homes nationwide have moderate to serious home health hazards. They require repairs that, if left ignored, will make them uninhabitable, and eventually they\u2019ll disappear from the market altogether.<\/p>\n

The National Low Income Housing Coalition, a research and advocacy group, estimates a shortage of 7 million affordable housing units for low-income renters, but those figures don\u2019t account for all the existing affordable units that stand at risk of demolition.<\/p>\n

Issues like lead paint, leaky roofs, and knob-and-tube wiring don\u2019t just leave tenants and homeowners in substandard, unsafe housing. They also leave families \u2014 mostly poor families \u2014 shut out from energy efficiency programs the federal government already funds to upgrade homes. Due to inflexible program restrictions, homes with outstanding repairs aren\u2019t eligible for existing weatherization subsidies, despite those families arguably needing them the most. Addressing this problem could help solve both the affordable housing and the climate crisis at once.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,104,270,411],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-housing","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7731,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}