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PHAs will be able to apply for subgrants in Summer 2024
The U.S. EPA has awarded $600 million to 11 Grantmakers as part of the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grant Program, which will reduce barriers to federal funds and issue thousands of environmental justice grants over the next...
From The Virginian-Pilot:
The city of Norfolk has secured its first federal grant to help offset the cost of building a 20-plus acre park in the St. Paul’s neighborhood that will double as a flooding mitigation tool.
The park space, called the Blue/Greenway because of its water and grass features...
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’...
From the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers' press release:
The Yonkers Housing Authority was visited by Alexis Pelosi, Senior Advisor for Climate, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, who toured several housing authority sites on...
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...
From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's press release:
At an event today at the newly-opened Thrive residential complex in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood, Kelly Watkins of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 office joined Denver Mayor Michael Hancock; Denver...