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.