Private homeownership interferes with fight against climate change, professor argues | The College Fix

Private homeownership interferes with fight against climate change, professor argues | The College Fix

• ‘Expansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing’

"If you’ve heard that Green New Deal supporters want to increase government control over all facets of life more than they want to protect the environment, well, here’s more evidence of that.
An assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA argues in the far-left magazine The Nation that California is doomed as long as people keep owning homes.
“If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership,” says Kian 
...To prevent catastrophe, Americans must reconsider their ideas about “success, comfort, home, and family,” particularly the single-family homes...
These policies benefited white middle-class families and “became synonymous with freedom and self-sufficiency” even though they represented “[e]xpansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing.”...
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