Homeless and vulnerably-housed populations and weather extremes:
Offer outreach programs to establish relationships with homeless populations Provide information on shelters to homeless populations in advance Ensure shelter accessibility (e.g., shuttle buses in emergency situations) Examine heat-health risk perceptions Educate community entities on local homeless populations to ensure homeless people have access to the available resources Draw on existing practices in relation to weather extremes (e.g., the guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for cooling centers; Toronto’s extreme heat and cold response plans; Heat–Health Warning Systems) Increase number of cooling and warming centers
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Housing and Urban planning:
Rely on existing practices to upgrade urban slums (e.g., Health Impact Assessment and Health in All Policies frameworks) Design low-cost housing by relying on knowledge of local dwellers Establish clear and consistent definitions of the terms “sheltering” and “housing” in literature focused on disasters Implement city-based rent control policies as well as mandate or provide subsidies to landlords to improve low-cost rental housing quality Avoid de-densification, land to low-income urban groups instead Focus on green infrastructure in urban planning Pursue research focused on rights-based approaches and in varying contexts Include homeless populations in disaster planning
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Research:
Examine the relationship between climate change, energy insecurity, and health from the perspective of the energy–health–justice nexus Identify racial and gender-based injustices Consult those working in communities during research development Cover a wider range of countries Focus on systematic data collection and on intervention, with qualitative and in-depth comparative studies Evaluate the effectiveness of existing strategies Integrate practices based on the available evidence Examine individual and structural responses that enable resilience
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Other:
Commit funds from high to low-income countries Ensure local governments’ willingness to work with low-income groups Use technology for climate modeling, the development of warning systems, and vulnerability zonation Use “health” as a rallying point
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