Dana Bourland

Dana Bourland is Vice President for the Environment at the JPB Foundation. Before becoming VP of the environment program at JPB, Dana was Vice President of Green Initiatives for Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to “making well-designed homes affordable”. She developed and oversaw all aspects of Enterprise’s Green Communities program including the creation of the Green Communities Criteria and Enterprise’s Multifamily Retrofit Program.

Gray to Green Communities

A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises

US cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contributes significantly to the changing climate, with residential buildings accounting for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. US housing is not only unhealthy for the planet, it is putting the physical and financial health of residents at risk.