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BEEP Listening Sessions: Equitable Building Decarbonization

March 13, 2025 by adiaz

PODER, along with the Building Energy, Equity & Power (BEEP) Coalition, is hosting a listening session to hear from renters, homeowners, contractors, developers, and community members about opportunities and challenges with equitable building decarbonization via whole-home retrofits. Join us on March 28, 2025. More information is here.

From our first campaign on preventing childhood lead poisoning due to peeling lead-based paint in people’s apartments to our current efforts for habitable, deeply affordable housing, organizing for healthy homes for working-class immigrants and communities of color has been a priority. Over the past few years, we have advocated for policies and practices that take an equity-based approach to building decarbonization. Our aim is to advance climate justice and healthy, thriving neighborhoods for Latinx immigrants and low-income communities of color and make sure our community is not left behind as San Francisco carries out policies and programs to meet its climate goals. 

Decarbonizing, or electrifying, homes means removing the use of gas in buildings in order to improve indoor air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. This includes replacing gas-powered appliances in homes, such as gas-powered stoves and heating and cooling systems with electric powered appliances. 

We are engaged locally with initiatives, such as the Climate Equity Hub and our demonstration project to electrify one of our member’s multi-unit building, in order to draw lessons on how to build this work to a neighborhood-wide scale. 

The listening session, the first of which is in the Bay Area with following sessions in the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles, will include representatives from state and local government, including the California Public Utilities Commission. They’ll provide information about their programs and they want to gather feedback from attendees.

If you are interested in participating, please RSVP here. For more information, please contact us at healthyhomes@podersf.org.


PODER, junto con la Coalición de Energía, Equidad y Poder de la Construcción (BEEP), está organizando una sesión de escucha para escuchar a inquilinos, propietarios, contratistas, promotores y miembros de la comunidad sobre las oportunidades y los retos de la descarbonización equitativa de los edificios mediante la modernización de toda la vivienda. Únase a nosotros el 28 de marzo de 2025. Más información aquí.

Desde nuestra primera campaña para prevenir el envenenamiento infantil por plomo debido al desprendimiento de pintura a base de plomo en los apartamentos de las personas hasta nuestros esfuerzos actuales para conseguir viviendas habitables y muy asequibles, la organización de hogares saludables para inmigrantes de clase trabajadora y comunidades de color ha sido una prioridad. En los últimos años, hemos abogado por políticas y prácticas que adopten un enfoque basado en la equidad para la descarbonización de los edificios. Nuestro objetivo es promover la justicia climática y vecindarios prósperos y saludables para los inmigrantes latinos y las comunidades de color de bajos ingresos, y asegurarnos de que nuestra comunidad no se quede atrás mientras San Francisco lleva a cabo políticas y programas para cumplir sus objetivos climáticos.

La descarbonización, o electrificación, de los hogares significa eliminar el uso de gas en los edificios para mejorar la calidad del aire interior y reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero que causan el cambio climático. Esto incluye sustituir los electrodomésticos de gas en los hogares, como las estufas y los sistemas de calefacción y refrigeración de gas, por electrodomésticos eléctricos.

Estamos comprometidos a nivel local con iniciativas como el Climate Equity Hub y nuestro proyecto de demostración para electrificar uno de los edificios de varias unidades de nuestros miembros, con el fin de extraer lecciones sobre cómo llevar este trabajo a escala de barrio.

La sesión de escucha, la primera de las cuales se celebrará en el Área de la Bahía y las siguientes en el Valle de San Joaquín y Los Ángeles, contará con la presencia de representantes de los gobiernos estatal y local, incluida la Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California. Proporcionarán información sobre sus programas y quieren recabar las opiniones de los asistentes.

Si está interesado en participar, confirme su asistencia aquí. Para obtener más información, póngase en contacto con nosotros en healthyhomes@podersf.org.

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Alert: Make Your Voices Heard! Keep Our Communities Together!

April 6, 2022 by adiaz

Filed Under: Updates

¡Tu Voto = Tu Voz!

March 3, 2020 by adiaz

It’s Election Day!

Vote!

You can find your polling place by clicking here.

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This Nov. 5th, Vote!

October 18, 2019 by adiaz

On November 5, 2019, remember to vote!

Vote “Yes” on Proposition A and “Yes” on Proposition E!

Say “Yes” to Affordable Housing!

To find your place to vote, click here.

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#PowerNotPanic

June 28, 2019 by adiaz

Help us to ensure that everyone in northern California knows where to access resources in the event of ICE presence in our communities. 

We want our communities to be informed and prepared!

Learn the hotline numbers of the Bay Area and call us if you see ICE.

 #PowerNotPanic

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Support AB 523! Today!

September 13, 2017 by adiaz

PODER familia,

AB 523 (Reyes) is coming up to a vote in the Assembly. Although it passed the floor with 51-20-9, we heard today that the Bay Area Caucus is not going to support our bill.

We are looking for constituents in the Bay Area to call their legislators today to urge their YES vote.

Please help get our bill to the Governor’s desk by calling your legislators, tweet at them, and sharing with others in the Bay Area. A sample script is below.

Thank you.

Please contact:
Jim Wood @JimWoodAD2 – (916) 319-2002
Cecilia Aguiar-Curry @CeciliaAD4 – (916) 319-2004
Marc Levine @MarcLevine – (916) 319-2010
Jim Frazier @AsmFrazier – (916) 319-2011
Tim Grayson @Tim4Assembly – (916) 319-2014
Tony Thurmond @TonyThurmond – (916) 319-2015
Catharine Baker @CBakerAD16 – 916-319-2016
David Chiu @DavidChiu – (916) 319-2017
Rob Bonta @RobBonta – (916) 319-2018
Bill Quirk @AsmBillQuirk – (916) 319-2020
Kevin Mullin @kevinmullin – (916) 319-2022
Marc Berman @AsmMarcBerman – (916) 319-2024
Kansen Chu @KansenChu – (916) 319-2025
Ash Kalra @Ash_Kalra – (916) 319-2027
Evan Low @Evan_Low – (916) 319-2028
Mark Stone @AsmMarkStone – (916) 319-2029
Anna M. Caballero @AMCab2 – (916) 319-2030

Call script:

Hello, my name is _______ and I live in _______.
I am calling to urge Assemblymember ________ advance energy equity in California.
This bill is adopted from a recommendation by the California Energy Commission in their SB 350 Barriers report.
Although disadvantaged communities make up 25% of the state, the fund has only funded 14% of disadvantaged communities.
We know that frontline environmental justice communities are the most impacted by harmful fossil fuel production, and are not getting the full benefits of clean energy innovation for a healthier transition.
We need our legislators to stand strong with our environmental justice and low income communities by saying YES to AB 523 (Reyes).
Thank you for your time.

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