Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez introduce 'Green New Deal for Public Housing'

I'm thinking tents.

frick that. Give em a tarp and some twine

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$172 billion to retrofit existing housing.

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to retrofit all 950,000 of the country's public housing units

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$181,000 per housing unit for all these upgrades?

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“With America facing an affordable housing crisis and the perils of climate change, we must invest in our housing infrastructure now. We also must be honest about the scale of the problem

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Start with people of color who need affordable housing

find out what they are willing to pay

then tax them if you're going to create an infrastructure bill to supplement the green stuff you want..

the rest of us already have homes to pay for, we're already paying for taxes, schools and so forth

They demand houses be built a certain way and then they demand the companies that agree to build these houses give control of their pay to the people contracted to build these things.



Perfect communist idea. No one has any incentive to do this but they're being forced by the government to do it anyways for "the greater good".

Eviction moratoriums aren't enough. We need rent & mortgage cancellation.

Congress can & must cancel payments by creating a @HUDgov fund to stand in the gap between struggling tenants and landlords.

I introduced a bill with @IlhanMN this week to make it happen. https://t.co/oVVESdp1Wl

— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) March 12, 2021


Progressive congresswoman @AyannaPressley has called rent cancellation legislation "literally a matter of life and death." At the same time, she has collected cash from her own rental properties.

Via @CAndersonMO https://t.co/Rdq7TSGJFU


Even if Pressley waived rent when the pandemic hit, she could recoup the lost income through a bill she cosponsored with fellow progressive representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.). The Squad members introduced the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act in both 2020 and 2021, which would require the federal government to reimburse landlords for lost rent for the duration of the pandemic.

The bill also uses taxpayer money to create a “landlord relief fund” that prioritizes landlords with “the fewest available amount of assets,” meaning Pressley and other minor lessors would be more likely to receive funds than large real estate firms.

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The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act would effectively force taxpayers to pay for every American’s rent or mortgage, as it does not include limits on income or payment size. The provision would also help Pressley’s progressive colleagues. Ocasio-Cortez, for example, lives in Washington, D.C.’s swanky Navy Yard neighborhood in a posh apartment building where rent for a small studio exceeds $2,000 a month. LINK

Remodeling hell, eh?

And they will destroy it all within a year.

Shovel ready Gender neutral bathroom

Great idea! Expensive green technology for the hoodlums and gangstas to destroy.