California Supports Solar Roofs for Multifamily Affordable Housing
lean Energy Finance Forum highlights the May report on solar storage released by Clean Energy Group and CHPC.
Tag Archives: Energy Efficiency
Improving Lives Through the Preservation and Creation of Affordable Homes
The essence of our mission has not changed in the eleven years since I came to work at the California Housing Partnership: to assist nonprofit and government housing agencies to create and preserve housing affordable to low-income Californians while providing leadership on affordable housing finance issues. What has changed is our understanding of the importance of both directly providing expert Read More
Greening City Gardens | Demonstration Project
This report describes a new approach to financing energy efficiency retrofits at affordable multifamily rental properties in California. The California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC) and Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) worked with LINC Housing (LINC) on a whole-building retrofit project to demonstrate how common barriers to financing energy retrofits can be overcome through close coordination with investor owned Read More
Barriers to Weatherizing California
This study examines various approaches undertaken by the California Department of Community Services and Development (CSD) to make energy efficiency improvements to low income rental multifamily dwellings (MFDs).
Improving California’s Multifamily Buildings: Opportunities and Recommendations for Green Retrofit and Rehab Programs
In California, the single-family home weatherization and whole-house performance sector is very active, with many programs already in place and new ones that began rolling out in the fall of 2010. While these programs have the potential to achieve impressive energy savings, their approaches do not neatly carry over into the multifamily and affordable housing sector. The multifamily and affordable Read More