Bernie Sanders and AOC unveil a Green New Deal for public housing
(WorldNews Environment)

This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Socialist Democrats are pushing the progressive envelope with a new iteration of Green New Deal legislation this week, this time with a focus on public housing. On Thursday, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a new bill that would dedicate billions of dollars to energy retrofits for America´s dilapidated public housing stock. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act would commit up to $180 billion over 10 years to upgrading 1.2 million federally administered homes. At a press conference outside the Capitol on Thursday,...