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The bill would provide funding for energy retrofits of public housing and workforce development programs for residents The Green New Deal, introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey in February, is a broad, aspirational sustainability framework that would reimagine much of American society?but it didn?t come with specific policy prescriptions.
That changed on Thursday as Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation for a Green New Deal for public housing. The bill would create seven new grant programs directed toward renovating public housing developments into carbon-neutral communities, in addition to giving residents work opportunities in the process of upgrading the units.

When we transform our public housing, we create an economy of scale for weatherization, retrofitting, and renewable businesses. That economic impact ripples across the industry, making energy efficiency, solar, and wind even more affordable and attractive for everyone else. https://t.co/QxZHYLoxb8? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) November 14, 2019
The bill, aptly named the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, would also repeal the Faircloth Amendment, which bans any net increase in the number of public housing units funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
?We must build the political will to combat the affordable housing crisis and climate change, both of which severely harm the lowest-income people, people of ...