Priority Area: Housing & Climate Nexus
Barrier: Housing Regulation

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Community Program Implementation )

Launch coordinated, values-based pro-housing campaigns that engage trusted messengers and community partners to build support for infill and multifamily development. This includes organizing “say yes to housing” education efforts to counter NIMBY narratives; partnering with cultural, faith-based, and health organizations as trusted messengers; and framing well-planned housing as improving family stability, commute times, air quality, and community well-being.

Existing Examples of Progress: 1. The Inland Deserts Regional Assessment under the Fifth Climate Change Assessment is partnering with groups like Alianza Coachella to host art-based and health-focused engagement events, where storytelling and community art connect climate, housing, and social well-being. 2. Lift to Rise’s regional housing coalition in the Coachella Valley — cited as a model of collaborative storytelling and data-sharing that connects housing supply to health, cost, and climate benefits., resilient housing part of the region’s health and equity strategy
Region: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Inland Deserts

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