Tenant Protections
6/12/25 @ 10:30AM
LaFitte Room
The Basics
What is it? WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Everyone deserves a safe and affordable home to thrive
Not everyone can afford to electrify and have the privilege to make good choices for where and what kind of housing they live in
Put some basic numbers on the affordability crisis and the energy burden crisis- how a small increase in rent or energy bill could upend lives- heat or eat
Ground truth in reality and present cases for how eviction happens for the most egregious reasons and share the work of heat pumps and the work needed to upgrade these homes to be electric
How can ensuring tenant protections enhance equitable building decarbonization?
Health benefits
Undoing historical and current harms to the most marginalized communities
Lay it out in the current political context of how lack of good housing and high costs led to our current political climate
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