US City Stimulus Response

The document argues that US cities require immediate federal aid to manage COVID-19 impacts, followed by strategic green stimulus investments. It proposes five specific areas for federal funding: streamlining cleantech permitting, building electric and affordable housing, supporting public transit and active transportation, enhancing infrastructure resilience, and greening urban spaces to create jobs and reduce pollution.

• The report identifies five specific green stimulus strategies for Congress to support city recovery: automating cleantech permitting to lower soft costs, investing in electric and affordable housing to create more jobs than fossil fuel investments, enhancing public transit and active transportation for safer mobility and less pollution, investing in critical infrastructure resilience, and implementing urban greening to mitigate pollutants.
• Strategic federal stimulus investment in a green economy is presented as a means to simultaneously achieve job creation, improved equity, enhanced public health and safety, increased resilience, and decarbonization.

APA

RMI (2020). US City Stimulus Response. https://rmi.org/resources/us-city-stimulus-response-2/

Chicago

RMI. US City Stimulus Response. 2020. https://rmi.org/resources/us-city-stimulus-response-2/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=RMI |title=US City Stimulus Response |date=20 July 2020 |url=https://rmi.org/resources/us-city-stimulus-response-2/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2020city, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{US City Stimulus Response}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2020}, month = jul, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/us-city-stimulus-response-2/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }