Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Unveil $172 Billion 'Green New Deal For Public Housing'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) unveiled sweeping legislation Thursday to invest up to $172 billion over the next decade to drastically upgrade the nation’s 1.2 million public housing units as part of a Green New Deal.

The bill, set to be introduced Thursday afternoon, calls for retrofitting the federally owned homes, improving energy efficiency, converting oil-burning furnaces and gas-fired stoves to renewable-energy electric alternatives, and replacing the lead-leaching pipes causing public health crises in cities across the country.

The so-called Green New Deal for Public Housing Act marks one of the boldest efforts yet to legislate the Green New Deal movement that, since its debut in mainstream politics with a series of protests a year ago, has reframed the global climate policy debate, providing a popular alternative to the market-friendly dogma that’s dominated Western politics for decades.

“Faced with the global crisis of climate change, the United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy,” Sanders, a top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said in a statement. “This bill shows that we can address our climate and affordable housing crises by making public housing a model of efficiency, sustainability and resiliency.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/sanders-ocasio-cortez-unveil-dollar172-billion-green-new-deal-for-public-housing/ar-BBWKB59?li=BBnb7Kz

[NurseJackie]

1. Who pays for it? Where's the money coming from?

[guillaumeb]

3. You beat me by seconds.

US politicians never have any problem finding the money for the war budget, or for tax cuts for the rich, or for subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, or the nuclear industry, or for corporate farmers.

[guillaumeb]

2. Where will we find the money?

Cut the war budget.

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. It's amazing what you can afford when you aren't blowing your wad on bombers.

[guillaumeb]

7. True, and amazing how often we here "how can we afford it",

when the "it" in question does not serve the interests of the 1%.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. That didn't used to be the case.

But, if the right keeps moving further and further to the right, what happens to the middle?

[George II]

9. As opposed to spending it on fighters:

First F-35 fighter jets assigned to Air National Guard arrive in Vermont

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The first two of an eventual 20 F-35 jets arrived Thursday at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, the first Guard unit to receive the next-generation fighter.

Guard members and friends clapped as the planes flew over the airport for the first time Thursday afternoon, doing several flyovers after the three-hour flight from the factory in Fort Worth, Texas.

The delivery follows years of work and planning, as well as missions in the Guard’s previous aircraft, F-16s that flew continuously for weeks over New York after the Sept. 11 attacks and in combat tours in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.

“Bringing the F-35 to Vermont secures our future for decades, and our country needs this airplane,” Col. David Smith, the commander of the 158th Fighter Wing, the new home to the F-35s, said after the planes arrived.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/09/19/first-f-35-fighter-jets-assigned-to-air-national-guard-arrive-in-vermont/

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. I LOVE it! Bernie & AOC rockin' the house! Would make a great team, too bad AOC not eligible in 2020

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[George II]

5. Imagine how much more effective this announcement would have been if they did it in Queens...

....at their recent rally with North America's largest public housing project as a backdrop? They could have even invited some of the residents!!!

[guillaumeb]

8. Are you in favor of this jobs plan?

Or can we not afford it?

[George II]

11. I don't think we know enough about it yet. But if it's like some of the other plans....

....that are either unfunded or funded with undefined tax increases, I won't be in favor if it.

[guillaumeb]

12. So other than tax cuts for the rich and more money for the war budget,

what can we afford?

[George II]

13. Who is talking about tax cuts for the rich and more money for the war budget? Certainly not I.

[Newest Reality]

14. Homelessness

We can choose to allow the affordable housing crises to continue and watch it grow and spread and then experience the impact it will have on the rest of us when it comes to various negative results like disease vectors, crime, etc., (and no, I am not equating homelessness with drugs and crime exclusively) or we can afford to mitigate the tsunami of homeless people to come.

When you list social issues that have an impact, (for instance, homelessness often costs municipalities and health care more than housing people would in the long run.) on the rest of us eventually and are critically important to solve quickly before they are more devastating, then you can see how that is being mostly ignored by the Trump Maladminstration and the current, clueless, unconcerned head of HUD, Ben Carson the Lobotomized.