Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
You’ve probably heard that more and more people are moving to cities like Seattle and San Francisco and that means they are getting REALLY expensive. But you might not have known that we need those places to be affordable to fight climate change.
Yes, the tears you shed over your rent check are just adding salty drops to the rising sea levels. It doesn’t have to be like this! Watch our video to learn how housing prices are connected to climate change and what to do about it.
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Sources:
National Academies
https://www.nap.edu/read/12747/chapter/5#51
Citylab
citylab.com/life/2018/03/californias-housing-prices-need-to-come-down/556637
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
reimaginerpe.org/files/MilesFromHome.pdf
Bay Area Council Economic Institute
bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/Another_Inconvenient_Truth_BACEI16.pdf
Zillow
zillow.com/research/birth-rates-home-values-20165
New Yorker
newyorker.com/business/currency/why-the-high-cost-of-big-city-living-is-bad-for-everyone
Brookings
https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-has-regional-income-convergence-declined/
Harvard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_regional_income_convergence_in_the_us_declined_01.pdf
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nations-housing-2018
National Bureau of Economic Research
nber.org/papers/w6826
Seattle Times
seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/free-amazon-echo-2-months-free-rent-2500-gift-cards-seattle-apartment-glut-gives-renters-freebies
Seattle Weekly
seattleweekly.com/news/sound-transit-plans-to-facilitate-affordable-housing-near-light-rail-stations
You’ve probably heard that more and more people are moving to cities like Seattle and San Francisco and that means they are getting REALLY expensive. But you might not have known that we need those places to be affordable to fight climate change.
Yes, the tears you shed over your rent check are just adding salty drops to the rising sea levels. It doesn’t have to be like this! Watch our video to learn how housing prices are connected to climate change and what to do about it.
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Sources:
National Academies
https://www.nap.edu/read/12747/chapter/5#51
Citylab
citylab.com/life/2018/03/californias-housing-prices-need-to-come-down/556637
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
reimaginerpe.org/files/MilesFromHome.pdf
Bay Area Council Economic Institute
bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/Another_Inconvenient_Truth_BACEI16.pdf
Zillow
zillow.com/research/birth-rates-home-values-20165
New Yorker
newyorker.com/business/currency/why-the-high-cost-of-big-city-living-is-bad-for-everyone
Brookings
https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-has-regional-income-convergence-declined/
Harvard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_regional_income_convergence_in_the_us_declined_01.pdf
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nations-housing-2018
National Bureau of Economic Research
nber.org/papers/w6826
Seattle Times
seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/free-amazon-echo-2-months-free-rent-2500-gift-cards-seattle-apartment-glut-gives-renters-freebies
Seattle Weekly
seattleweekly.com/news/sound-transit-plans-to-facilitate-affordable-housing-near-light-rail-stations
