May 5, 2021
President Joe Biden entered office in January facing multiple converging crises and the urgent need to mitigate the previous administration’s most egregious failures: a pandemic entering its second year, exacerbated by a botched vaccine rollout and anti-mask disinformation; businesses crippled by indoor-gathering restrictions and depressed consumer spending; millions of Americans out of work and facing foreclosure, eviction or homelessness; extreme weather emergencies linked to climate change … the list goes on.
The end of this 100-day sprint is upon us, and we must look beyond the short term. The American Rescue Plan has passed, the CDC’s eviction moratorium has been extended until June 30 and an ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan is currently under debate. Embedded in that proposed legislation is some $213 billion earmarked to “produce, preserve, and retrofit more than a million affordable, resilient, accessible, energy efficient, and electrified housi
President Joe Biden entered office in January facing multiple converging crises and the urgent need to mitigate the previous administration’s most egregious failures: a pandemic entering its second year, exacerbated by a botched vaccine rollout and anti-mask disinformation; businesses crippled by indoor-gathering restrictions and depressed consumer spending; millions of Americans out of work and facing foreclosure, eviction or homelessness; extreme weather emergencies linked to climate change … the list goes on.
The end of this 100-day sprint is upon us, and we must look beyond the short term. The American Rescue Plan has passed, the CDC’s eviction moratorium has been extended until June 30 and an ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan is currently under debate. Embedded in that proposed legislation is some $213 billion earmarked to “produce, preserve, and retrofit more than a million affordable, resilient, accessible, energy efficient, and electrified housing units.”