Multi-Family Weatherization
There is a significant need to weatherize and improve the energy efficiency of the multi-family affordable housing portfolio in Pennsylvania as a means of preserving the availability of this housing for low and lower-income residents of the state.
Property owners are struggling with increases in energy costs that cannot be passed on to tenants or absorbed by the property.
Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
- Department of Energy’s WAP Program
- WAP regulations
- WAP enabling legislation
- Lists of Multifamily Properties Eligible for Weatherization Assistance (from HUD)
- DOE buy-down guidance
- Appendix A (pdf)
- Grant versus loan issue
- Memo re: Recommendations to Maximize Job Creation Opportunities by Leveraging Department of Energy ARRA Funding in Multifamily Housing from Enterprise (March 26, 2009)
- letter to Gil Sperling from Enterprise (July 2, 2009)
- Improving the Implementation Of The Weatherization Assistance Program National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (undated, appears to be 2010
- WAP-related developments
- DOE issued guidance indicating that state WAP plans must include multi-family properties (pdf)
- DOE is reportedly working on a regulation that would allow WAP funds to be used as part of a revolving loan fund
- IRS is reportedly working on guidance that would allow some newer LIHTC properties to accept WAP grants without impacting basis
Related Resource
- Common Energy Efficiency Requirements (a white paper from the federal Rental Policy Working Group discussing aligning the energy efficiency requirements of various federally-funded housing programs) (pdf)
- Capital Needs Assessment (a white paper discussing alignment of the CNA requirements of various federal agencies) (pdf)
- An Update and Look Forward: Better Buildings Through Executive Action (2012) (pdf)
- Philadelphia Task Force on Weatherization and the Workforce, Final Report
- Act 129
- Energy Score Cards
- PHFA’s Smart Rehab Program
- Long Term Study of Pennsylvania’s Low Income Usage Reduction Program: Results of Analyses and Discussion (pdf)
- Energy Efficiency Loan Financing Study
- Economic Opportunity Studies’ Leveraging Partnership Project Resource Site
- Analysis of Low-Income Benefits in Determining Cost-effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Programs (1999)
- Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Green Building Design in Section 202 and Section 811 Programs from HUD’s
Office of Policy Development & Research - HUD’s Healthy Homes program (strategic plan – large pdf)
- Green Affordable Housing Policy Toolkit (pdf)(Enterprise Green Communities)
- National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)- Weatherization and Home Energy Efficiency page
- Enterprise Green Communities – Weatherization page
- Up the Chimney: How HUD’s Inaction Costs Taxpayers Millions and Drives Up Utility Bills for Low-Income Families (report from NCLC – pdf)
- Bringing Home the Benefits of Energy Efficiency to Low-Income Households (pdf)
- Battle To Weatherize: Affordable housing developers struggle for theirshare of stimulating weatherization cash(pdf)
