D.C. lawmakers pitch a plan for ‘Green New Deal for Housing’

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The city would own apartment buildings where low-income people would live alongside tenants who can pay more. The plan is far from becoming reality, but popular with a spectrum of local activists.

, where low-income people live in publicly owned housing alongside higher earners who pay rent to fund the project.

Following the lead of her fellow democratic socialist lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Lewis George has labeled her bill a “Green New Deal for Housing.” The proposal would authorize D.C.'s local government to buy properties and convert them into social housing. It includes prioritizing building housing near Metro stations, to reduce the climate impacts of car commuting, and other environmental standards for the social housing buildings.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser , who will enter her third term next year, has made the city’s Housing Production Trust Fund the centerpiece of her efforts to increase the number of affordable apartments in the city. The fund — which Bowser has put hundreds of millions of dollars into annually in her recent budgets — subsidizes private construction of apartment buildings in exchange for the developers reserving units in their building specifically for people at designated income levels.

 

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