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Pathways to Equity and Savings for Low-Income Households
How tax incentives and updated standards are changing home construction.
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New Zero-Energy Homes Almost to Cost Parity, While Codes & Incentives Help Cross the Finish Line
If you had a choice between building new homes that meet basic standards and building comfortable, healthy homes that dramatically cut energy bills, which would you prefer? How about if the low-energy homes cost the…
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Zero-Energy Homes Are Ready for Mainstream Markets
Zero-energy (ZE) homes—efficient homes that produce or procure as much renewable energy as they consume over the course of a year—are often marketed as luxury homes, only available to the select few that are willing…
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Why Efficiency Matters: Unlocking Benefits Beyond Climate for All
Energy efficiency is critical to make climate action faster, cheaper, more equitable, and more widely beneficial for the planet.
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The Energy Revolution Takes Root Deep In The Heart of Texas
Almost 100 years after Houston’s Independence Heights first made history, HOUZE selected it as the pilot community to create a prototype affordable “zero-energy community.”…
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Transforming the Real Estate Market: Scaling Net-Zero Energy Homes at No Additional Up-front Cost
Download our new insight brief, R-PACE: A Game-Changer for NZE Homes, to learn more about the opportunities for state and municipal leaders and policymakers to adopt innovative residential PACE programs as a means to…
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Rental Efficiency Standards: A Win for Equity and Climate
COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn have turned the existing housing crisis from bad to worse. Renters in more than 8 million homes are behind on payments, and as they struggle to make ends…
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Abundant, Affordable, Climate-friendly Homes: What Part 1 of the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building Means for Housing
Unpacking the Department of Energy’s long-anticipated Zero Emissions Building definition.
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Cities Hold the Keys to Greener, More Efficient Homes
Our homes may be a source of safety, comfort, and stability—but they also represent a considerable slice of our country’s carbon emissions (19 percent, according to the latest estimate from the US Energy Information Administration).
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A Small Iowa Town Embraces Energy Independence
Tiny Bloomfield, Iowa, with the help of RMI’s eLab Accelerator, is a surprising one with big implications for small towns across America.
