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HUD prioritizes environment, economic equity in bloc grants
The Associated Press ^ | January 31, 2022 | By ASHRAF KHALIL

Posted on 01/31/2022 11:11:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has laid out new guidelines for the disbursal of $2 billion in disaster-relief block grants, with an emphasis on climate-change mitigation and equity for underserved communities.

These block grants traditionally come with a great deal of flexibility for local authorities and recipient agencies to decide where best to target the funds depending on the nature of the disaster.

But HUD is now directing recipient agencies to prioritize long-term environmental resilience and serving traditionally marginalized populations.

HUD spokesman Michael Burns said the agency is defining underserved communities as areas that “were economically distressed before the disaster” and populations that “have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social, and civic life.”

All new construction funded by the grants will need to be built to green standards that emphasis energy efficiency and resilience against similar disasters down the line.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; brandon; election2020; globalwarming; green; race; socialism; spending; woke

1 posted on 01/31/2022 11:11:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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They’re simply trying to confuse, to obfuscate, that they are making payoffs and wealth transfer payments. Every last one of the bureaucrats and politicians green-lighting these and similar government thefts needs a good hanging. (After their fair, 5-min trial.)


2 posted on 01/31/2022 11:14:47 AM PST by curious7
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“marginalized populations”

Like White Anglo-Saxon Protestant males?!


3 posted on 01/31/2022 11:14:54 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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De Blasio turn $8B in NYC pension funds over to AOC-driven Green New Deal investments
New York Post ^ | October 21, 2021 | Julia Marsh and Sam Raskin
Posted on 10/21/2021, 11:12:23 PM by karpov

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal agenda is now governing the future of city pension funds, Mayor Bill de Blasio and city Comptroller Scott Stringer announced Thursday.

Self-described socialist AOC was on hand at City Hall Thursday as the city politicians, each with less than three months left in office, pushed $8 billion in investments to her Green New Deal agenda — detailing their commitment of the Big Apple’s pension investments to climate-friendly companies.

The $8 billion through 2025 amounts to a down payment toward a previously stated commitment by de Blasio for $50 billion in pensions funds invested in green-minded companies.

“I want to give credit where credit is due. It took vision and it took an incredible sense of what is possible and how to push the spectrum and reset our imaginations and we got that from a great leader,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing, before introducing AOC, who joined Hizzoner on the dais amid negotiations on President Biden’s spending bill.

“Thank you so much for changing people’s minds, and resetting the entire sense of the possible with the Green New Deal. It is extraordinary,” the far-left Bronx-Queens Democrat said.

“What you did changed debate in this country permanently and that’s one of the highest callings I can imagine, to help people see a new reality,” Ocasio-Cortez gushed.

The mayor and comptroller on Thursday morning detailed a plan for three city pension funds to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in their investment portfolios by 2040.

The blueprint includes a goal to double investments in renewable energy and “green real estate” to over $8 billion by 2025 and invest more than $37 billion in “climate solutions investments” by 2035, according to the mayor’s office.

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4 posted on 02/09/2022 1:07:48 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Regulator

Equity will never be possible until white and Asian infants are strangled in their cribs.

You can’t have any smart folks left to cause offense and hurt feelings.


5 posted on 02/09/2022 1:10:35 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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