URGENT! 🚨 CA lawmakers are forcing through a backroom deal to give a huge tax cut to big real estate. By imposing strict limits on transfer taxes, they will gut cities’ ability to fund social/affordable housing and city services. 📞 CALL TODAY and tell your reps to reject AB736!

Artist Space Trust, launched in 2023, wants to make sure the Bay Area can remain a creative hub. Oakland artists have benefited.

In the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, Chelsea Kirk & I write about the victory of private markets in the aftermath of the Eaton & Palisades fires, instead of what could have been: housing stabilization, tenant protections & collective disaster risk reduction. dissentmagazine.org/article/los-...

I wrote this piece because a lot of people who work on building decarb think that we'll be able to rapidly transition without confronting housing speculation and profit-driven landlords. There is no just transition without building tenant power.

🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)

NEW: Report with @uawregion6.bsky.social and @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social shows how the California Grid Manufacturing Initiative can lower bills, bring green union jobs, and accelerate climate progress. This would deliver: - 12k union jobs - $200B cumulative savings by 2050 - rapid climate action

NYCHA's decarb contests are driving green innovation, and they can go even bigger with a full vision for housing as green industrial policy. We could do the same in California with green social housing as a cornerstone of our housing agenda. greennewdealca.substack.com/p/how-housin...

Affordable homes, climate investments, and good jobs don't have to be pitted against each other. In fact, in NYC @mayor.nyc.gov has a a huge opportunity to advance all three together, and local examples to build off. Me and @batul.bsky.social wrote how in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

Writing about the proposed mixed-status rule greennewdealca.substack.com/p/the-propos...

🚨 I NEED A FAVOR PLS SHARE 🚨 HUD’s proposed rule will instigate mass homelessness for mixed-status families AND destabilize the entire subsidy system. HUD public comment CAN have an impact, even in Trump admins! take just 5 minutes to fill out this letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

NYC's public housing has been driving innovation in decarb technologies, and now thousands of people living there will get reliable heating & cooling, lower utility bills, and the ability to control the temps in their own apartments. Green economic populism at work. citylimits.org/more-nycha-a...

I have a new piece out today describing how the insurance industry's profit motives conflict with our need for protection & outlining the Disaster Insurance for All proposal from @cplusc.bsky.social in #TheRooftop, @futurelandhousing.bsky.social's housing blog. www.newamerica.org/future-land-...

🚨🚨 TOMORROW: ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE 🔥🧊 We’ll rally and march at 4:00 PM at Fruitvale BART to demand an end to ICE and their brutalization of our neighborhoods and communities. ¡Ni aquí ni allà la migra pasara! Oakland marcha y manifestación Fruitvale BART 16:00

I'm thrilled to share this episode of the @obi-belonging.bsky.social's Real Solutions podcast, in which Sierra Kos of @weathersurvivors.bsky.social & I discuss climate-related disasters & solutions to increase community resilience & household financial safety nets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

"I think that the task of building a climate movement is part and parcel of the task of building left political power and social power and organized working-class power more broadly." Compelling words from @triofrancos.bsky.social in @thenation.com with @learning2live.bsky.social and Andreas Malm

Pledging to address the escalating cost of home insurance is a way Dems can demonstrate that they’re willing to challenge the profiteers making life more expensive, while addressing the impacts & causes of climate change, @aaronregunberg.bsky.social & I write newrepublic.com/article/2044...

"He rolled his eyes, pulled faces, refused to make eye contact with those addressing him directly, had numerous side conversations, and simply walked away (at one point with food)." @maggietokudahall.bsky.social reports back from yesterday's Flock debacle: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/whipped-votes/

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies. Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

The fact that utilities are ecstatic about the new load growth tells you everything you need to know

NEW INVESTIGATION California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030 A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

Tomorrow activists are launching a novel rent debt strike against one of the largest corporate landlords in the country. I report on their strategy and national goals

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

This is a wild story. Bass tries to insert last-minute state bill to significantly weaken the *LA voter-approved* Measure ULA, then withdraws it less than 48 hrs later. Real estate & co (Howard Jarvis, CBRT) are pissed about ULA and doing whatever they can to stop it

TODAY!!! Come hear @alybatt.bsky.social talk about her brilliant new book!

Labor's answer to automation: less hours, more pay. Undated UAW poster from the 1950s. 📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social

It's not just that data centers are driving up bills -- we are underestimating the impact of Big Tech's growing ownership of power plants and share of the wholesale electricity market

The climate crisis is a catastrophe we cannot afford to ignore, means-test, or isolate as an ​“add-on” to other problems. Workers and tenants across the country understand that, and are advancing green economic populism at home and at work. So fun to get to dig into it w/ @batul.bsky.social.

AI is the new microwave.

Literally

In CA's CEQA wars budget deal there was a last minute addition of an exemption for 'advanced manufacturing.' A few weeks later, California Forever announces they are going to build "largest site for advanced manufacturing in North America." Hmmm... 🤔 seems like something for @gilduran.com

Wrote about the connection between mass deportations and evictions in this week's newsletter. ICE raids and deportations are causing families to fall behind on rent. And landlords are using the threat to force out tenants.

“This climate populism message is one that we really need to lean into,” the Arizona Democrat said at the Bloomberg Green Seattle conference on Tuesday. Story @bloomberg.com with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Evictions and deportations are both about forcibly removing people from their home. Landlord in Oakland (Darrick Chavis) threatens both.

"Renters want air conditioning, need it to stay safe, and believe it should be treated as a right—not a luxury." Extreme heat kills. Timely new report from SAJE on a renter's right to cooling in the face of climate-driven heat events www.saje.net/renters-righ...

A green social housing agenda could drive innovative manufacturing for all of the green home technologies we'll need for healthy + decarbonized homes. Not just a dream - real examples from NYCHA & Vienna. Great piece by @aldasky.bsky.social, @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social, and @cplusc.bsky.social

Susanne Schindler has done it again! A concise, clarifying read. bit.ly/460Hhgq

Hello bluesky 👋 If anyone’s out there, give me your best follows for assorted interests in organizing strategy, the climate left, social housing, and technofascism. And/or maybe some uppers like tree facts, the mysteries of space, animals being nice etc etc