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In this week\u2019s episode, host Margaret Walls talks with Carlos Mart\xedn, a project director at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and a university fellow at Resources for the Future, about housing adaptation and resilience amid climate change, using as a primary example New Orleans housing infrastructure after Hurricane Katrina. Mart\xedn argues that the resilience of housing infrastructure is key to climate adaptation, particularly for economically disadvantaged communities. He also discusses how residential buildings produce emissions and contribute to climate change; achieving US decarbonization goals will require related upgrades and improvements, which not all households can tackle with ease.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cHousing Resilience in Greater New Orleans: Perceptions of and Home Adaptations to Climate Hazards in Post-Katrina Louisiana\u201d by Carlos Mart\xedn, Claudia D. Solari, Anne N. Junod, and Rebecca Marx; https://www.urban.org/research/publication/housing-resilience-greater-new-orleans\n\n\u201cExploring Climate Change in US Housing Policy\u201d by Carlos Mart\xedn; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2012030\n\n\u201cAccelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions\u201d by Stephen W. Pacala, Danielle Deane-Ryan, Alexandra Fazeli, Julia H. Haggerty, Chris T. Hendrickson, Roxanne Johnson, Timothy C. Lieuwen, Vivian E. Loftness, Carlos E. Mart\xedn, Michael A. M\xe9ndez, Clark A. Miller, Jonathan A. Patz, Keith Paustian, William Pizer, Ed Rightor, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Devashree Saha, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Susan F. Tierney, and William Walker; https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/25931/interactive/\n\n\u201cPathways to Prosperity: Building Climate Resilience\u201d by Allison Plyer, Alysha Rashid, Elaine Ortiz, Taylor Savell, and John Kilcoyne; https://www.p2pclimate.org/\n\n\u201cThe Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection\u201d by Dorceta E. Taylor; https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-rise-of-the-american-conservation-movement