How can we push equity-focused climate justice policies in flood-prone cities?

[Madison12]

I'm part of a community organization in a coastal city that's already experiencing severe flooding, and we're trying to build a local campaign around climate justice that goes beyond just emissions reduction to address the racial and economic disparities in who bears the brunt of these impacts and who has access to resilience funding. Our lower-income neighborhoods, predominantly communities of color, have worse drainage infrastructure and fewer resources to recover, yet are consistently left out of city planning conversations. For other grassroots groups, what advocacy tactics have been most effective in moving municipal governments from vague climate pledges to actionable, equity-focused policies like targeted green infrastructure investments or community-owned renewable energy? How do you build a broad coalition that bridges environmental, housing, and racial justice groups without having the core demand for reparative justice get watered down in the political process?