Ethan Elkind quoted by WIRED, March 13, 2018
“It’s a feedback loop,” says Ethan Elkind. … “We’ve made it very hard across the country to build in existing urban neighborhoods, which have been shown repeatedly to have lower carbon emission per capita…and we’re subsidizing people living out in sprawling, more vulnerable areas outside cities.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by CNBC, March 12, 2018
“Regardless of what this business plan said, the political and funding reality was that they don’t really have enough money to build what they want to do — certainly not statewide,” said Ethan Elkind.
Ethan Elkind quoted by The Mercury News, March 3, 2018
“This bill goes right to the heart of what has prevented more building near transit in California,” said Ethan Elkind. … “It would be really transformative. Over the coming decade or so we could have millions of new homes with access to transit.”
Ethan Elkind co-writes for The Sacramento Bee, Feb. 21, 2018
Too many California cities and counties impose zoning restrictions that make it practically impossible to build low-cost, walkable housing. For decades, state leaders have allowed these local zoning policies to proliferate, to the point that the state now faces a severe housing shortage.
Ethan Elkind quoted by Daily Bruin, Feb. 14, 2018
“I think that the concern (of gentrification) is overblown. We’re already seeing gentrification happening like crazy … and the reason it’s happening is that we’re not building enough housing in general,” Elkind said.
Ethan Elkind quoted by WIRED, Feb. 7, 2018
“People first look for cheaper housing as far away from their jobs as they can that is still a reasonably feasible commute,” says Ethan Elkind. … “When we push people into areas like Phoenix and Houston, we see the climate impacts, from flooding to sprawl, with people in these high-polluting areas where they don’t necessarily even want to be.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by The Mercury News, Dec. 16, 2017
“We want more people in California, particularly low-income people in disadvantaged communities, to feel a stake in the state’s climate programs and receive benefits from them.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by Scientific American, E&E News, Oct. 12, 2017
“We have to just assume that these fires are going to be more intense and more frequent,” Elkind said. “We’re going to need more defensible space.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by ClimateWire, Sept. 5, 2017
“They are still both basically aspirational,” Elkind said of the states’ goals. … “We know the technologies are there, but there’s huge question marks around the cost of transitioning to solely 100 percent renewables.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by Capital & Main, Aug. 23, 2017
While many construction jobs are not permanent, those jobs and their ripple activity “helped the Inland Empire recover from the Great Recession faster,” said Ethan Elkind. … “Construction employment is where California’s climate policies have been an economic game changer.”