Asensio, O.I., Churkina, O., Rafter, B.D. et al. Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities. Nat Sustain 7, 590–601 (2024)

Objective:

• Investigate long-term sustainability outcomes for two of the largest HUD-administered block grants, the community development block grant, entitlement programme and the Home investment partnerships programme

Case:

• Albany

Methodology:

• DID
• Match algorithm

Data Source

• Human and machine-readable format to Database
• Albany Open Data GeoHub

Findings:

• Summarize IAM model
• For the firm joined ETS, most of them cluster around low emissions and low economic relevance

• The ratio of median electricity charges to median income is 8-12%, higher than the national threshold
• Housing policies can accelerate participation in energy efficiency among capital-constrained homeowners or renters
• HUD funded housing projects in Albany generated monthly energy savings of 5-11% for participating households
• HUD funded block grants in Albany reduced electricity use by 4.72 million kWh

• Energy saving from housing programme spillover is range from 6-32%

Coding Reference:

• R