Building Resilience with Air Conditioning

Kizzy Charles-Guzman, executive director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, and Carolyn Olson, assistant commissioner in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, talk about a new study that demonstrated the benefits of a program that distributed air conditioners to low-income seniors during the summer of 2020 when cooling centers were unavailable due to the pandemic, and whether such programs show promise for building resiliency for the most vulnerable as summers get hotter.