Description
Access to affordable housing and displacement are top concerns for many frontline communities. Historical racial zoning laws, restrictive covenants, redlining, decades of disinvestment, and increasing housing demand and rising costs have created conditions for gentrification and displacement of low-income residents, small businesses, and cultural spaces. Residential displacement makes households less resilient to climate impacts. Invest in King County’s Equitable Development Initiative by allocating at least $10 million–$25 million per year in new revenue to invest in community-driven and community-owned housing and resilience projects. This action prevents housing, economic, and cultural displacement. It also promotes equity by investing in frontline communities disproportionately impacted by climate change due to existing and historic racial, social, environmental, and economic, inequities, and who have limited resources and capacity to adapt.