If you’ve been tracking anything about the pandemic-era housing market, you already know that rents are bananas—like “22 percent up year over year” bananas. Seattle city dwellers, working from home in their cramped apartments, ditched the urban core for more space and amenities out in the burbs. Prices went up accordingly, and so did something else: emissions.
According to a recent climate impact report, the average carbon footprint for suburban or “fringe” county households in the United States is 18 percent higher than counties in the urban core. After all, life in the sprawled-out suburbs tends to mean more driving, plus more heat, electricity, and water for all that extra
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