"Policies that mitigate discriminatory housing practices and provide economic relief to LGBT people will bolster the resilience of these communities to climate events," the report said.
UCLA – which champions progressive research on several topics – crafted the April 2024 report using the U.S. Census and federal climate risk data from NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to show a "geographic analysis" of the risk posed to LGBTQ+ couples.
Researchers also suggest that federal and local surveys like the U.S. Census should expand their measures to include wider sexual orientations and gender identities "to increase the scope and granularity of information available on LGBT people, including assessments of climate risk."
Homosexual couples are disproportionately located in coastal areas and cities, making them more vulnerable to certain hazards, researchers claimed. Among the 15 counties with the highest proportions of same-sex couples, all are in coastal or urban areas, the study said.
"This indicates that LGBT people in same-sex couples are more likely to be located in places with large impervious surface areas, high housing density, and low-lying infrastructure," the report said.
Several organizations and government departments in California have warned about the so-called connection between inadequate housing and climate change in the last decade. Housing California, a prominent organization championing more access to affordable housing and stamping out "housing injustice," claims that climate change can increase homelessness and housing insecurity "by displacing thousands of families when floods and wildfires destroy homes and decimate entire communities."
BIDEN LAUNCHES BILLION-DOLLAR CLIMATE WORK PROGRAM AS PART OF EARTH DAY ACTIONS
President Biden launched the American Climate Corps this week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The program is part of broader actions the White House unveiled Monday to commemorate Earth Day. In addition to the American Climate Corps announcement, the White House touted recent regulations blocking off 13 million acres of federal land from future oil drilling and revealed $7 billion in grants for mainly state-level solar projects.
"Here’s the bottom line: President Biden laid out the most ambitious land and water conservation agenda in American history," White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory told reporters during a call about the administration's Earth Day actions. "And he is delivering, already cementing a legacy as one of the nation’s strongest conservation presidents."
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The White House said the overarching goal of the corps is to make it easy for any American to "find work tackling the climate crisis while gaining the skills necessary for the clean energy and climate resilience workforce of the future." It added the first class of the American Climate Corps will be deployed in June 2024.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House asking whether Biden plans to provide more federal funding for the intersection of LGBTQ+ and climate change research but did not hear back by press deadline.
Fox News' Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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