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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) unveiled sweeping legislation Thursday to invest up to $172 billion over the next decade to drastically upgrade the nations 1.2 million public housing units as part of a Green New Deal.
The bill, set to be introduced Thursday afternoon, calls for retrofitting the federally owned homes, improving energy efficiency, converting oil-burning furnaces and gas-fired stoves to renewable-energy electric alternatives, and replacing the lead-leaching pipes causing public health crises in cities across the country.
The so-called Green New Deal for Public Housing Act marks one of the boldest efforts yet to legislate the Green New Deal movement that, since its debut in mainstream politics with a series of protests a year ago, has reframed the global climate policy debate, providing a popular alternative to the market-friendly dogma thats dominated Western politics for decades.
Faced with the global crisis of climate change, the United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, Sanders, a top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said in a statement. This bill shows that we can address our climate and affordable housing crises by making public housing a model of efficiency, sustainability and resiliency.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/sanders-ocasio-cortez-unveil-dollar172-billion-green-new-deal-for-public-housing/ar-BBWKB59?li=BBnb7Kz
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)US politicians never have any problem finding the money for the war budget, or for tax cuts for the rich, or for subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, or the nuclear industry, or for corporate farmers.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Cut the war budget.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)when the "it" in question does not serve the interests of the 1%.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)But, if the right keeps moving further and further to the right, what happens to the middle?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. The first two of an eventual 20 F-35 jets arrived Thursday at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, the first Guard unit to receive the next-generation fighter.
Guard members and friends clapped as the planes flew over the airport for the first time Thursday afternoon, doing several flyovers after the three-hour flight from the factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
The delivery follows years of work and planning, as well as missions in the Guards previous aircraft, F-16s that flew continuously for weeks over New York after the Sept. 11 attacks and in combat tours in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Bringing the F-35 to Vermont secures our future for decades, and our country needs this airplane, Col. David Smith, the commander of the 158th Fighter Wing, the new home to the F-35s, said after the planes arrived.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/09/19/first-f-35-fighter-jets-assigned-to-air-national-guard-arrive-in-vermont/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)....at their recent rally with North America's largest public housing project as a backdrop? They could have even invited some of the residents!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Or can we not afford it?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)....that are either unfunded or funded with undefined tax increases, I won't be in favor if it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)what can we afford?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)We can choose to allow the affordable housing crises to continue and watch it grow and spread and then experience the impact it will have on the rest of us when it comes to various negative results like disease vectors, crime, etc., (and no, I am not equating homelessness with drugs and crime exclusively) or we can afford to mitigate the tsunami of homeless people to come.
When you list social issues that have an impact, (for instance, homelessness often costs municipalities and health care more than housing people would in the long run.) on the rest of us eventually and are critically important to solve quickly before they are more devastating, then you can see how that is being mostly ignored by the Trump Maladminstration and the current, clueless, unconcerned head of HUD, Ben Carson the Lobotomized.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided