Jamaal Bowman

Instead of bringing us together, our current transportation system keeps us apart.

What if transit-oriented development meant focusing on the well-being of our communities?

Even in a city with the largest public transit system in the country.

As a new congressman, I fought successfully for a new COVID vaccination center at Co-Op City.

I strongly urge you to include funding for resilience projects like the LOSSAN Corridor relocation in the infrastructure package.

A significant failure of the bluffs impacting the LOSSAN Rail Corridor for an extended period of time will severely harm the local and regional economy.

Strengthening the resilience of our infrastructure is critical as our country experiences the impacts of the climate crisis.

I urge you to prioritize regionally and nationally significant mega-projects that build resiliency, such as a key railway relocation project in my district.

I urge the Committee to include my legislation in the infrastructure package.

The Scaffold Law is estimated to add $10,000 to the cost of a single-family home in New York State.

The Federal Government can spur livable, sustainable communities, and it is our responsibility to the taxpayer to make sure we maximize their investment.

This week I reintroduced the Build More Housing Near Transit Act, H.R. 2483, that would help incentivize a more thoughtful approach to building housing during the construction of large transit projects.

First, I want to stress the importance of investing in public transportation that prioritizes decongesting our roads, increases sustainability, and supports regional housing planning.

What do we know about the health benefits of deep energy retrofits at this point, and what do we still have to learn?

I want to zero in on the health piece.

This goes to the heart of why we need to address climate change, inequality, and racism together.

Big problems require big solutions, and that is exactly what we will be pursuing together on this Committee.

We need sustainable buildings now, and we need to rebuild our communities from the ground up.

When climate disasters strike, redlined communities of color and low-income people are hit hardest.

Currently, about 40 percent of our country's carbon dioxide emissions comes from the structures that we live, work, and sleep in.

This is a critical component of fighting the climate crisis.

Can you speak more to the challenges involved in bringing sustainable building technologies to redlined and low-income communities?

Now, we need to come together as a nation and build on these victories at the Federal level.

Thanks to a broad coalition of social movements, New York State passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019.

We currently are in the midst of this pandemic doing work virtually with young people who have been exposed to violence.