Climate resilience has emerged as a key priority for the Biden administration. President Joe Biden has announced an ambitious goal to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in half by 2030, while the Build Back Better Act (BBB) sets aside $495 billion for a variety of climate initiatives, including tax incentives to transition energy production away from coal and natural gas and toward solar and wind, energy-efficient building retrofits, and electric vehicle tax credits. The BBB also calls for substantial investments ($166 billion) in housing by upgrading the nation’s aging public housing stock and expanding subsidies to low-income renters.
Housing growth in the Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. metro areas shows why the U.S. is failing at climate resilience (Rushaine Goulbourne, Jenny Schuetz, Brookings)
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