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From NBC 10 Boston:
It’s been nearly two months since Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, signed an executive order banning fossil fuels from city buildings by the year 2050, and work toward those goals is well underway.
The Boston Housing Authority holds one of the city's largest shares of the city’...
A recent blog post from the Urban Institute’s Housing Matters Initiative examines how housing policy can help address intensifying climate change through the lens of the Washington, D.C. region. Building energy consumption accounts for 74% of all emissions in D.C., while residential energy use...
HUD has launched an interactive, dynamic Funding Navigator to help connect PHAs to the numerous climate resiliency programs that are currently available. The Funding Navigator allows users to filter the programs shown to narrow the search for funding to meet the...
PHAs Should Contact Their States’ Lead CPRG Planning Grant Recipients to Apply
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the availability of $4.6 billion in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). The CPRG funds the implementation of measures to reduce greenhouse gas...
From the Chicago Housing Authority's (CHA) press release:
CHA has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge, committing to a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and 15 percent energy use reduction over the next 10 years.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...
CLPHA has launched a new Green Funding Clearinghouse for member PHAs to easily view funding opportunities for green energy, climate resiliency, and disaster recovery. With a wide variety of funding opportunities across multiple federal agencies now available to PHAs, CLPHA has created...
At CLPHA’s Housing Is Summit today, HUD announced the availability of $837 million through the new Green Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP). Released today are the program’s implementing notice and Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs), which detail a range of grant and loan funding options for...
CLPHA and the U.S. Department of Energy hosted a webinar to provide PHAs with an overview of climate resiliency funds now available through the Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP). Dr. Henry McKoy joined the webinar and gave details on applying for various environmental...
CLPHA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will host an exclusive webinar for CLPHA members that will provide an overview of climate resiliency funds available to PHAs on Monday, April 7 at 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM ET. It is a follow-up discussion from the Environmental...