Policy advocacy as solutionism

The massive backlog of deferred maintenance for public housing in the United States demands a comprehensive, holistic solution that brings every unit in the country up to the highest health and environmental standards: A Green New Deal for Public Housing. This plan would deliver healthy green upgrades and deep-energy retrofits of the nation’s public housing stock to massively increase residents’ health and quality of life, finally remedy the long backlog of repairs in public housing, and eliminate all carbon pollution from public housing buildings, while creating badly needed, high quality jobs in the green economy for people in public housing communities.

(My bold. Accessed online at https://www.climateandcommunity.org/gnd-for-public-housing-2024#:~:text=The%20massive%20backlog%20of%20deferred,New%20Deal%20for%20Public%20Housing.)

So what?

I understand that we don’t want things to be false, we want things to be true, but then there’s the leap from authenticity to the idea of purity, and therefore, what is not authentic or pure is somehow corrupt, and that’s the danger zone.

Jhumpa Lahiri, essayist and novelist

(Accessed online at https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/29/our-obsession-with-origin-is-a-global-danger-says-jhumpa-lahiri-hay-festival#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20understand%20that%20we%20don,danger%20zone%2C%E2%80%9D%20she%20added.)