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zach lou

@zlousky.bsky.social
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climate, housing, EJ, labor. coalition director @ greennewdealca.org

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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...
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National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing
The Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no individual househ...
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DSA San Francisco @dsasf.org · 23/06/2026
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!
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 21/05/2026
Artist Space Trust, launched in 2023, wants to make sure the Bay Area can remain a creative hub. Oakland artists have benefited.
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Berkeley land trust aims to keep artists housed in the Bay Area
A three-year-old Berkeley land trust aims to keep artists housed in the Bay Area.
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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-...
screenshot of masthead of the article linked in the post. Text reads: Fire Sale
In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won.  Chelsea Kirk and Moira Birss ▪ Summer 2026
below text is a photo of a firefighter spraying water at a fire that's burning around tall buildings and a few trees.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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.
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨🚨 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)
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Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute
A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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...
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🏡💚 How housing can power the green economy
Lessons from NYCHA leading a green industrial policy for housing
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Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Writing about the proposed mixed-status rule greennewdealca.substack.com/p/the-propos...
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🏡💚 The proposal to separate immigrant families
The proposed mixed-status rule is the latest attack in a politics of removal
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DEI speedwagon 🌹🇵🇸 @uhshanti.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨 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...
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Tell HUD: Keep Families Together and Housed!
HUD’s new proposal is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. It would rip families apart and increase eviction & homelessness during a housing crisis. Join me in telling HUD Secretary Scott Turner to ...
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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...
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More NYCHA Apartments to Get Climate-Friendly Heat Pumps - City Limits
More than 700 homes at Beach 41st Street Houses in Rockaway will switch to electric heating and cooling, which officials say will reduce pollution and offer more reliable service than NYCHA's aging, f...
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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-...
newamerica.org
Disaster Insurance for All: Our Proposal for Reforming Property Insurance
Insurance industry profit motives conflict with our need for protection. Public insurance, coupled with proactive risk reduction, can help.
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East Bay DSA @eastbaydsa.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨🚨 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
Text reads: ICE OUT of everywhere—solidarity with Minnesota! No work, no school, no shopping. Oakland march and rally, Fruitvale BART at 4:00pm, January 23rd. Ni aquí ni allà, ¡la migra pasará—solidaridad con Minnesota! Pausa el trabajo, la escuela, y las compras. Oakland marcha y manifestación Fruitvale BART, 14:00, 23 de Enero.
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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...
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Disaster Insurance & Community Resilience
Podcast Episode · Real Solutions · 01/14/2026 · 1h 3m
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isaac @sevier.io · 13/01/2026
"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
thenation.com
What Justice on a Burning Planet?
Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate emergency.
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
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Here’s the Climate Message That Can Help Democrats Win Big in 2026
Rising home insurance costs are making life unaffordable for both homeowners and renters. Robust climate policy and public disaster insurance could save many households’ finances.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 17/12/2025
"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/
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Whipped Votes
Flock Deliberations, Oakland City Council Meeting, Yesterday
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The fact that utilities are ecstatic about the new load growth tells you everything you need to know
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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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...
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The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California
By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
latimes.com
In abrupt turnabout, Mayor Bass withdraws her bill to overhaul L.A.'s 'mansion tax'
Bass had pushed for the bill to rewrite Measure ULA in the final days of the legislative session, only to reverse course, saying she needed more time.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
TODAY!!! Come hear @alybatt.bsky.social talk about her brilliant new book!
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UAW @uaw.org · 17/08/2025
Labor's answer to automation: less hours, more pay. Undated UAW poster from the 1950s. 📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social
Vintage UAW poster from the 1950s in yellow, orange, black, and white. The text reads:

"Labor's answer to automation: less hours, more pay."

The image shows a human hand pressing a button on a machine.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
nytimes.com
Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
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Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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.
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 05/08/2025
AI is the new microwave.
Thats not to say there haven't been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited.
But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good. The number of microwaves has required me to upgrade my restaurant's electrical system and I now have a small nuclear reactor installed in
the parking lot.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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🏡💚 Deportation, eviction, and the politics of removal
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“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...
bloomberg.com
Democrats’ Path to Power Is ‘Climate Populism’, US Representative Says
Arizona Democrat Yassamin Ansari told attendees of Bloomberg Green Seattle that focusing on the rising costs of energy will resonate with voters.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Evictions and deportations are both about forcibly removing people from their home. Landlord in Oakland (Darrick Chavis) threatens both.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"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...
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New SAJE Report Advocates for a Renter’s Right to Cooling July 8, 2025 Over the next decade, climate scientists predict Los Angeles will experience three times more days of temperatures over 95°F. Thi...
New SAJE Report Advocates for a Renter’s Right to Cooling July 8, 2025 Over the next decade, climate scientists predict Los Angeles will experience three times more days of temperatures over 95°F. Thi...
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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
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Karen Kubey @karenkubey.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Susanne Schindler has done it again! A concise, clarifying read. bit.ly/460Hhgq
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From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
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zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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
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