The Environmental Case for Affordable Housing

NRDC, July 14, 2016

By: Natural Resources Defense Council, Ramya Sivasubramanian

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/ramya-sivasubramanian/environmental-case-affordable-housing
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This blog post explains the environmental benefits of building affordable rental housing near transit at a large scale. It introduces a tool called GreenTRIP Connect that quantifies the climate benefits of development near transit and argues that California will only be able to achieve its climate goals by expanding housing opportunity in transit-accessible neighborhoods.