Synapse: This Week's News for LA’s Best Buildings
LA Must Tackle Clean Buildings & Affordable Housing Together
A recent report from the global engineering and consulting firm Arup dives deep into the complex relationship between getting fossil fuels out of buildings and creating and preserving affordable housing in Los Angeles (LA), calling for both to be addressed in tandem to secure a resilient future for the city.
Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2022: Flexibility, Convenience Will Shape the Next Decade
Despite potential storm clouds ahead, survey results from the Emerging Trends in Real Estate® United States and Canada 2022 report, produced jointly by ULI and PwC, show strong optimism in the industry about the coming year, speakers said at a Fall Meeting session on the report.
Eighty-four percent of survey respondents expect 2022 to be better than 2021, exceeding the 79 percent who held a similar view about the coming year in 2019. It also is the highest level of optimism about the coming year since 2016.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Decarbonizing Affordable Housing
Nonprofit affordable housing providers play a unique, multifaceted role in our cities. Community Corporation of Santa Monica makes it our mission to help lower income residents live more stable, dignified lives, and we also partner with cities to meet their affordable housing requirements and help create more diverse, inclusive communities.
DOE Upgrades One Million Homes as Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Provides Massive Investment in Energy Efficiency
U.S. Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Delaware today to announce that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has upgraded one million American homes with energy efficiency improvements through the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program. The trip and milestone underscore the importance of the weatherization and energy efficiency investments that are within the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. Since 2001, the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program has helped American homeowners and renters save $7.7 billion on their energy bills and cut carbon emissions equivalent to a year’s worth of 11 coal-fired power plants.
Ready-to-Go: State and Local Efforts Advancing Energy Efficiency
This toolkit provides a resource for local and state governments, and their partner organizations, as they prepare to deploy current and future federal funding opportunities. We first discuss six guiding principles for governments developing energy efficiency programs, synthesizing lessons learned from examples and centering equity considerations. Following this discussion of guiding principles, we provide descriptions of 17 example programs across the United States. These programs address housing, transportation, workforce development, and other topics. Each project description summarizes the program, identifies successes and challenges, and highlights key ways that the program can be applied to other governments’ work.
Webinar: Net Zero Imperative - Cities & Real Estate Accelerating Decarbonization in the Built Environment
ULI recognized real estate’s responsibility and opportunity to address the climate crisis and work toward net zero. And thanks to a generous donation from Owen Thomas, ULI has launched the Net Zero Imperative, a multi-year initiative to accelerate decarbonization in the built environment. This webinar introduces the program’s cohort of participants across the globe, which includes LA Better Buildings Challenge, and their planned technical assistance panels designed to help building owners, cities, and other relevant constituents reduce carbon emissions associated with buildings, communities and cities via a roadmap to zero.
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