PV-Magazine, July 2020 – Landlords and renters in Victoria can now apply for interest-free loans in addition to generous rebates offered under the state government’s Solar Homes program. In so doing, eligible landlords will be able to cut the upfront cost of installing PV by up to $3,700. Victoria’s landmark $1.3 Solar Homes program currently offers landlords a subsidy of up to …
A Pandemic and Surging Summer Heat Leave Thousands Struggling to Pay Utility Bills
High unemployment, stay at home orders and rising temperatures due to climate change are fueling energy insecurity and furthering the need for assistance. By Maddie Kornfeld, Climate Home News, JUL 14, 2020 When the coronavirus pandemic forced classrooms to close this spring, Leticia Garcia’s family in Fairfax County, Virginia, quickly ran short of money. Garcia cleans schools for a living …
Living affordability is a major and growing concern. Recent Census survey says about 44 percent and 41 percent of adult Latino and black renters, respectively, said they had no or slight confidence they could pay their rent next month
Living affordability is a major and growing concern. With rising unemployment, housing experts are predicting that 20 percent of all renters will be at risk of eviction by early fall. As with other aspects of the pandemic, Black and Latino people will be hurt the most. As reported in the Washington Post, a recent Census survey found that “about 44 percent and 41 percent …
More Than 20 Million People in US Face Eviction by the End of September
By Igor Derysh, Salon, July 12, 2020 One in five Americans who live in rentals could face eviction by the end of September as Congressional Republicans move to cut off unemployment assistance and other coronavirus relief, according to an analysis by the Aspen Institute. More than 20 million people — roughly 20% of the 110 million Americans living in rented homes — could face …
Tackling evictions, housing and the prison-to-homelessness pipeline: Formerly incarcerated people are nearly 10 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population. Half move directly to shelters in some places
Formerly incarcerated people are nearly 10 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population, according to a Prison Policy Initiative report. In New York City alone, over 54% of individuals who are released from prison move directly into the shelter system. Criminalized people live in a perpetual state of insecurity, Lucius Couloute, sociologist and assistant professor at Suffolk University, said in …
In 30 years from now, on the current path, almost half a million existing homes will be on land that floods at least once a year
Rising seas threaten an American institution: The 30-year mortgage The New York Times | Christopher Flavelle Up and down the coastline, rising seas and climate change are transforming a fixture of American homeownership that dates back generations: the classic 30-year mortgage. Home buyers are increasingly using mortgages that make it easier for them to stop making their monthly payments and …
The Homecoming Project: over 600,000 people exit incarceration in the US every year
IMPACT THE HOMECOMING PROJECT GET INVOLVED BECOME A HOST For the more than 600,000 people who exit the system every year, coming home to family and community is the first important step into a new life. Currently this process does not work well for anyone, so we need to find a way for every person coming home to have a safe place to …
Who Owns a Home in America, in 12 Charts
CityLab David Montgomery, reprint from 2018 Photo by Thomas Winz / Getty Images. America is, by and large, a nation of homeowners. Though more than 100 million Americans rent, they’re outnumbered two-to-one by Americans who own their own home, according to data from the U.S. Census. And that’s nothing new. Americans have had high rates of homeownership for a long …
Shifting the Paradigm toward Renewable Power and Local Ownership and Returns in Pueblo, Colo
BY MARIE DONAHUE AND JOHN FARRELL | 29 AUG 2018 Podcast (localenergyrules): Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS A growing number of U.S. cities have set goals to generate 100 percent of their electricity from renewable resources in the coming decades, each with its own unique circumstances and motivations. Pueblo, a small city of just over 100,000 residents located in southeastern Colorado, is one of these …
Public broadband fiber network will offer service levels Coloradans can’t access with for-profit companies
Update from Conor May on April 17, 2020, on the 2019 Boulder Camera article further below – So the buildout is still ongoing, but I believe the plan was to have a fiber head at the municipal buildings near some low-income areas (I believe a school and maybe a fire station in North Boulder) that could project free wifi to …