The challenge: The Bay Area’s soaring housing costs have led to a devastating increase in housing insecurity that ultimately exposes vulnerable populations to the harsh impacts of climate change.
The solution: Greenbelt Alliance is activating environmentalists as advocates for housing as a climate solution while mobilizing housing actors to advocate for new homes in the right places. Our work will increase new homes within existing communities—across all income levels—in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, climate risks, and impacts on the natural environment. Here’s how…
Greenbelt Alliance is making the climate case for housing on the coalitions we are a part of, with our business partners through training workshops, and by providing learning opportunities with youth across the region.
By supporting the right type of housing in the right places, we inspire new investment and sustainable development—addressing both the climate and housing crises together.
Greenbelt Alliance is leading advocacy initiatives for the right kinds of land-use policies that prioritize affordable, low-emission, climate-resilient development in places that avoid climate hazard areas.
This holistic advocacy approach to the housing and climate crises guides decisions that result in people and nature thriving together.
Greenbelt Alliance brings environmentalists and housing advocates together to consider both sides when planning for the future. And we ensure inclusive processes are upheld, giving everyone a say in how their city grows.
This cooperative work is essential to ensure everyone has a safe place to live in balance with nature.
This November, voters have a chance to repeal an existing ordinance in San Mateo— enacted by voters since 1991—that limits height and density of new buildings by voting YES on Measure T.
Vote YES on Measure O to support a pro-housing initiative that encourages the creation of middle class and workforce housing on underutilized parcels.
Vote YES on Proposition 5 to empower local voters to address the affordable housing and public infrastructure crisis in their communities. Prop 5 empowers local voters to approve bonds for affordable housing, critical public infrastructure, and emergency response in their own comm unities with a 55% vote—if those bonds include strict accountability, oversight, and transparency
As California’s Congress approaches the end of the legislative session at the end of August, many bills are going into the final round of discussions. Each year, Greenbelt Alliance selects legislative priorities to endorse, collaborate, and advocate for. Those guide our team in determining opportunities to take action that will advance our mission to educate,
There’s so much incredible work at the intersection of climate change resilience and housing in the East Bay to celebrate. 2024 has been an especially exciting year for Greenbelt Alliance and our partners, as we launched major initiatives to protect our diverse East Bay communities and ecosystems, while honoring the people and nature that make
