Policy Platform

Advance Environmental Justice

  • Increase access to solar power and associated cost savings

  • Monitor and improve air quality (indoor and outdoor) in frontline communities

  • Integrate a healthy homes approach into existing building decarbonization policy

  • Protect low-income Angelenos from the gas cost “death spiral” as informed by the coalition’s affordable housing preservation policy priorities

  • No false solutions to address local and climate emissions

Institute Tenant Protections

  • Make decarbonization retrofits ineligible for pass-through costs to tenants in rent-stabilized units

  • Improve the city’s Tenant Habitability Plan 

  • Strengthen construction work regulations and allow rent reductions for disruptive construction work 

  • Close the substantial remodel loophole for non-RSO tenants subject to AB1482 and the Just Cause Ordinance 

Invest in Workforce Development and Job Standards

  • Ensure strong labor standards for publicly subsidized retrofit work

  • Create a “one-stop shop” for health and safety repairs and rehabilitation

  • Implement hiring requirements for decarbonization work to prioritize local workers and historically marginalized workers

  • Connect building decarbonization and implementation with workforce development pathways and targeted outreach

  • Promote publicly funded water and energy efficiency upgrades, smart appliances, grid-responsive buildings, safety and livability upgrades, and pursue district energy solutions

  • Couple decarbonization to sister policies and programs facilitating workforce transitions from phased-out industries

Supporting, Protecting and Preserving Existing Affordable Housing

  • Conduct an affordable housing gap assessment for the City of Los Angeles

  • Public financing for mission-based/non-profit affordable housing providers. Public financing to accelerate decarbonization that prioritizes frontline, affordable housing, and subsidies exclusively for affordability covenants.

  • Temporary exemption for mission-based/non-profit affordable housing providers

  • Alternative compliance path: after temporary exemption has passed, adjustments specific to mission-based/non-profit affordable housing might include target modifications, delayed compliance deadlines, or prescriptive compliance options.

  • Dedicated funding for stabilization: Stabilize the extant affordable housing stock. Currently there is a lot of focus on the production of affordable housing, but we also need to focus on the preservation of affordable housing