Balancing Act: Making Buildings Better while Keeping Housing Affordable
Local governments are adopting ambitious building performance policies to achieve climate goals, but how can they preserve housing affordability?
Local governments are adopting ambitious building performance policies to achieve climate goals, but how can they preserve housing affordability?
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Commons is the first multifamily Passive House-certified retrofit project in the country.
Advancing sustainability and wellness efforts in the face of this challenging crisis can show strength and leadership while reducing operating costs, increasing building resiliency, and improving indoor health.
This factsheet describes what PACE financing is, how it works, and what city governments can do to implement a PACE program for private sector buildings.
This case study describes how Minnesota put in place an effective PACE financing mechanism and has leveraged $40 million in energy efficiency and renewable energy investment through a variety of partnerships within and across government agencies.
This case study provides an overview of Connecticut’s statewide commercial financing program, the Connecticut C-PACE program, which has achieved $130.4 million total closed project financing, with an average loan amount of $546,000 and 239 closed projects.
This fact sheet describes what on-bill utility financing is and how it can help city governments enable more energy efficiency investments.
This case study describes on-bill financing programs managed by California investor-owned utilities.
This fact sheet describes how city governments can establish revolving loan funds for energy efficiency projects in both municipal and private sector buildings.
This case study details a revolving loan fund program in New York City, managed by the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation, which focuses on funding clean energy investments in private sector buildings.