56%
Nitrogen dioxide pollution levels are 56% higher in historically redlined communities
56%
Communities within 3 km of hazardous waste sites are 56% people of color, despite making up only 30% of the population nationally.
Housing Justice
A vision of quality, safe, and affordable housing combined with social programs to address houseless experiences to ensure everyone has a home, regardless of race, income, or citizenship status.
Learning Resources
Learn about Housing Justice with Energy Allies!
RESEARCH
Haley M. Lane, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Julian D. Marshall, and Joshua S. Apte
Communities of color in the United States are systematically exposed to higher levels of air pollution.
CASE STUDY
Housing for All
Housing Justice For All is an organization that advocates for housing justice, affordability, and tenant protections in New York State.
RESEARCH
Krimmel, Jacob
These findings suggest redlining impacted neighborhood housing supply and population independent of pre-war patterns of racial segregation.
RESEARCH
Hoffman, Jeremy S., Vivek Shandas, and Nicholas Pendleton
This study reveals that historical housing policies may, in fact, be directly responsible for disproportionate exposure to current heat events.
RESEARCH
Erik Steiner, Matt Nowlin, Jeramy Townsley, Rebecca Nannery, Unai Miguel Andres and Sharon Kandris
Racial disparities are stark: Black children of families qualifying for programs like SNAP and Medicaid earn $9,000 less than White children by the age 35. But neighborhood disparities exist, as well. Children earn more as adults when their neighborhood has more families with above average incomes, even when their own parents’ income is below average. Children of segregated neighborhoods also earn less as adults.
RESEARCH
Maxim and Grubert
This research could facilitate a more just energy transition, focused on avoiding locking in extreme energy burdens and protecting people from extreme temperature events. Preemptive planning and targeted infrastructural investments can enable just transitions and community resilience.
ARTICLE
The Conversation
Housing solutions must focus on addressing housing as a human right.
GUIDE
Radical in Progress
This study guide was written by Clara Mangali and edited by Kendall Wack and Katya Zabelski to explain the housing question proposed by Freidrich Engels in 1872.
GUIDE
Radical in Progress
Using the geographic case study of New York, the authors use this section to demonstrate that at their core, “housing movements are popular struggles by those for whom housing means home, not real estate.”
ARTICLE
High Country News
This interview with Indigenous housing activist Jackie Fielder dives into the colonial roots of our modern day housing market.
ARTICLE
LA Times
In a twist on the term “NIMBY,” “YIMBYs,” or “Yes, in my backyard” organizations have sprung up across California, and the YIMBYs argue their efforts will benefit income-qualified people of color statewide.
Utility justice and energy justice are directly connected to housing justice and stopping evictions-- sometimes inability to pay utility bills can be the reason that people are evicted from their homes.
