GreenLatinos condemns the apparent effort to enrich the wealthiest and segregate poor people from cities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 06/12/2025
MEDIA CONTACT: Edder Díaz Martínez, Communications Manager, 602-832-6039, [email protected]
WASHINGTON—The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has released its budget reconciliation text. It contains a section mandating the privatization of millions of acres of national public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and/or Wyoming.
In response, GreenLatinos issued the following statement.
“Any appeal for affordable housing tied to the sale or conversion of national public lands is a farce. If Congress wanted to build affordable housing, they would have already done so by resourcing efforts to make cities more dense and walkable, clean up urban brownfields and toxic sites, and utilize solar and wind energy. This antagonistic proposal will increase the cost of living for everyone while driving a wedge between Americans in poverty and basic built-community needs. It targets numerous Hispanic and Latino-dense states and is designed to redline poor residents out of cities and onto the projects of tomorrow–right on top of our public national grasslands, canyonlands, forests, riparian zones, deserts, and more of the most culturally, historically and ecologically important places in our nation. People deserve real, affordable housing in cities with infrastructure and resources. We will defend the one and only home of our heritage and wildlife from this fanatical pursuit to enrich land developers.” - Olivia Juarez, Public Land Program Director, GreenLatinos
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About GreenLatinos
GreenLatinos (NOTE: GreenLatinos is ONE WORD) is an active comunidad of Latino/a/e leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation.
