This session is part of our Lunch & Learn series

—where we squeeze a powerful skill or topic into your lunch hour,

we make it interactive, engaging, and just fun enough that the learning sneaks up on you.

We will trace how historic redlining and discriminatory housing policies created

Today’s unequal energy burdens, utility insecurity, and environmental health risks.

While acknowledging the foundation of injustice on which our current decarbonization tenant advocacy work is built, we’ll connect past harms to present‑day tenant challenges and highlight the tenant‑centered solutions emerging across the Midwest.

Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how housing justice, energy justice and decarbonization intersect — and what meaningful action looks like in 2026.