DC wants to reimage public housing to include climate and social justice. To put people, and the planet first. Current public housing in DC is a failure so it isn't likely those who manage failure will get it right with this reimaging.
D.C.'s 'Green New Deal for Housing' Is Doomed Before It Begins
Just a couple months after federal investigators found shambolic management and appalling conditions at thousands of public housing units in Washington, D.C, district politicians and activists want to expand the city's housing portfolio with an ambitious "Green New Deal for Housing."
The hope is that with a new office, a more expansive mission, and different branding, the city can build and operate new "social housing" that accomplishes a wide range of social goals while avoiding the pitfalls of the public housing units it currently owns.
"The Green New Deal for housing is about confronting our housing crisis, our climate crisis, our displacement crisis with a comprehensive approach that puts both our people and our planet first," Councilmember Janeese Lewis George, the bill's author, at a public hearing of the district council's Committee on Housing and Executive Administration last week.
Lewis George's bill would create a new Office of Social Housing Development within the city government that would purchase existing housing units or build new ones. The city would then operate these properties as mixed-income social housing where two-thirds of the units would be rented out at affordable rates to very low- and extremely low-income district residents.
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