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The U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Energy, and the Internal Revenue Service announced that applications are open for the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program. These 48e credits can provide a bonus of up to 20 percentage points for any of...
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...
CLPHA Leads on PHA Access to DOE Funding
The U.S. Department of Energy’s State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP) office has launched two energy rebate programs that offer a total of $8.5 billion in point-of-sale rebates. Thanks to CLPHA’s advocacy, public housing and buildings...
Key Steps Include Streamlining Financing for Affordable Housing Creation, Offering Green Funding Opportunities, and Repairing and Expanding Affordable Housing Through RAD
Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new actions to its Housing Supply Action Plan to lower...
Meeting topics include various updates from CLPHA on HUD policy and programs and the latest developments in Washington, D.C., including FY24 appropriations, green funding opportunities for PHAs and CLPHA’s new green funding clearinghouse, voucher and operating fund shortfalls, tenant accounts...
From NY1 Spectrum News:
A program launching this fall aims to replace thousands of gas cooking stoves in NYCHA-owned buildings with new electric induction stoves.
NYCHA is teaming up with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York Power Authority on an...
HUD has published Notice PIH 2023-17, which contains new guidance on the Utility Rate Reduction Incentive (RRI) in public housing. The RRI provides additional Operating Fund grant formula eligibility to a PHA that undertakes a special and significant action to reduce its utility rate. Through the...