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Climate mitigation policy tools for cities: corporate operations

• ---Answers---Municipal buildings; municipal vehicle fleets

BC building code updates - ---Answers---All new buildings must be zero carbon by 2030

Tower renewal program Toronto - ---Answers---Offers incentives to building owners, operators, and residents to retrofit older apartment towers; decreases GHG emissions and lowers utility costs for low-income residents and creates decent jobs

Intensification - ---Answers---Regional planning policies can encourage more compact, denser cities = aims to limit sprawl (containment) and direct growth to already built-up areas (densification) Airbnb - ---Answers---Owners of rental units in areas where there is a strong tourist demand for short-term rentals face strong economic incentives to evict existing tenants, or to not find new tenant when previous ones depart, in order to quickly and cheaply realize the higher possible rents = gentrification of large neighbourhoods

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Take Back The Land - ---Answers---Take homeless people and move them into empty homes (fought for housing justice for black people in Florida)

What does Take Back The Land highlight? - ---Answers---The irrationality of the broader system + asserting that the right of human beings to housing supersedes the right of corporations to make a profit

Feminist housing models - ---Answers---Brake down isolation = sense of community

Community land trusts - ---Answers---Non profit organizations that find ways to acquire property and put land to community use

Rent strikes - ---Answers---Tenants organize together and collectively decide to not pay rent (get lower rents)

Urban renewal - ---Answers---Redevelopment of areas considered distressed through the expropriation and razing of large areas of property and the construction of new infrastructure and housing

• key elements of urban renewal - ---Answers---Slum

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Redlining - ---Answers---Discriminatory lending practice (neighbourhoods with large Black populations were deemed high risk and coloured red = had to pay higher interest rates or couldn't access mortgages = racial wealth gaps)

Homeowners' associations - ---Answers---Local groups of homeowners who act politically to increase and protect their property values

Not In My Backyard - ---Answers---Defend middle-class neighbourhoods against unwanted land uses, further housing development and outsiders Urban greening - ---Answers---Uses vegetation and green space to reduce urban heat island effect and extreme temperatures

Managed retreat - ---Answers---Government buy-out programs to move people or assets

According to Cohen, the climate crisis isn't just a technical problem but also a... - ---Answers---Socio-political one

Green New Deal - ---Answers---Proposals to drastically cut emissions through large-scale public investments in infrastructure, linked to well-paying, unionized, accessible jobs; aims to address climate change and social issues

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