Minding the Gap: Strategies for Electricity Readiness in Low Income Homes
New York offers incentives for electrifying and weatherizing homes. However, many residents whose homes most need these improvements cannot afford the work required for eligibility, including remediation of toxins, insulation, and improvements to electrical systems. This effectively locks low-income New Yorkers out from the resources they desperately need. The panelists will discuss innovative non-profit and state programs that seek to fund the gap between deferred maintenance and whole-home upgrades, and welcome discussion with participants.
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Identify the barriers low-income owners and renters in homes with deferred maintenance face in benefiting from energy efficiency and electrification incentives, both financially and in terms of health and comfort
Review emerging funding, programmatic approaches, and available data in New York for getting low-income households access to weatherization- or electrification-readiness
Explore how funding approaches can not only focus on energy-related goals but also work towards other objectives important to low-income households, such as financial literacy and wealth building
Identify program and policy designs that improve access to existing incentives and guide the creation of new pre-weatherization and -electrification funding programs for low-income New Yorkers
Approved for 1 credit hour toward AIA (LU|HSW), BOC, BPI, NARI, Phius, and RESNET certification