Climate Safe Housing: Strategies for Multifamily Resilience
Communities across the nation are regularly experiencing natural disasters or recovering from them. While all communities are at risk, low-income communities are disproportionately affected by climate events and often have limited resources to recover. This guide provides owners and operators of multifamily housing with practical guidance on re-designing and retrofitting their buildings to adapt to and provide protection from climate risks and other potential hazards.
Portfolio Protect
The Enterprise Portfolio Protect Tool helps owners, operators and developers of affordable housing understand which properties are at highest risk from flooding, fire, earthquakes and other natural hazards. This tool offers users the ability to identify highest risk properties and offers recommendations and resources to help minimize potential harm to your property or properties and keep residents and their homes safe.
America’s Federal Funding Opportunities and Resources for Decarbonization (AFFORD)
This tool is primarily intended to streamline state, local, non-profit, and community efforts to increase understanding of eligible funding, tax credits, and other incentives relevant to your project, goals, and community. The tool focuses on decarbonization efforts, including electricity, transportation, buildings, and resilient energy systems. It does not exhaustively capture federal resources for other topics. Use the filters to sort available funding sources automatically and focus on the funding sources relevant to your project, goals, and community. Then use the compare feature to select up to four programs to review side-by-side.
Colorado Multifamily Affordable Housing Electrification Hub
The Hub is a technical resource designed to help equip the multifamily affordable housing community in Colorado with electrification design and decisions through access to technical resources, peer learning, and financing and development resources. This resource supports Colorado’s Renewable Energy and Climate Action Goals. In addition to local code compliance, building electrification can help reduce carbon emissions, improve indoor air quality for residents, reduce operating costs, and more.
A Comparison of Multifamily Green Building Certifications
Green building certifications provide benefits for a wide range of building stakeholders, with a focus on residents. The systems establish a roadmap that development teams can use to design and construct healthy, highly efficient buildings. This review provides a comparison of multifamily green building certifications to help stakeholders understand the relevant requirements and value proposition of each rating system. Analysis focuses on the application of these certifications to multifamily affordable developments in Colorado, including Housing Tax Credit developments.
Housing 101: What is Affordable Housing?
An overview of different types of affordable housing, including common affordable housing programs, organizations, and regulations. The resource is part of the digital toolkit, Advancing Mobility from Poverty, developed by Enterprise and StriveTogether.
Green bank' partnerships center affordable housing in climate action
Writing in ImpactAlpha, HPN President and CEO Robin Huges explores the question: “What could we achieve if the affordable housing sector was at the forefront of climate solutions in the United States?”
Millions in HUD Funding Still Available Through GRRP
This article is an overview of HUD's Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP). It was developed with help from National Housing Trust (NHT) and Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF). GRRP, a $1B IRA program, has issued $1M in awards but the program has seen lower application volume than expected to date, leaving more resources still available for applicable projects. The article recommends that developers assess their portfolios for eligible HUD subsidized properties, so these resources are not left on the table. It also includes information on changes to make it easier for housing owners to incorporate funding into their projects.
Carbon Roadmap: SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Roadmap Tool
The Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Roadmap ("the Carbon Roadmap") allows portfolio owners to use results from the SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Calculator to set targets for decarbonization and develop a list of priorities for portfolio segments or decarbonization strategies.
Carbon Calculator: SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Calculator
The SAHF Multifamily Portfolio Carbon Emissions Calculator ("the Calculator") allows portfolio owners to calculate their annual greenhouse gas emissions in CO2 equivalent. It was created to allow multifamily portfolio owners to understand their carbon emissions baseline based on actual and estimated data, and to help measure carbon reductions.