Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly planning to propose a new version of the Green New Deal, and it is loaded with provisions designed to make America’s public housing stock go green.
Ocasio-Cortez, independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and other left-wing legislators are poised to launch the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act on Thursday in Washington, D.C., according to Politico.
The bill—which aims to “provide economic empowerment opportunities in the United States” by making public housing climate-friendly—would effectively mandate the electrification of almost every aspect of public housing, including the deployment of electric vehicle chargers and the replacement of gas stoves, according to its text.
The bill is designed to “reimagine and reinvigorate public housing in the United States” and reverse “many of the environmental injustices that public housing residents have faced,” Ocasio-Cortez told Politico. Approximately 1.2 million American households are living in public housing, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The bill would require........