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The Trudeau government recently unveiled a new “green” program that provides grants of up to $5,600 to homeowners who make their homes more environmentally…
New consumer rebates can incentivize the purchase and installation of key household electric appliances over their fossil-fuel counterparts and help put the country on a path to fully electrifying its housing stock.
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Judith Maina is COO of Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., whose programs use Networking, Policy and Innovation to battle blighted properties in Memphis.
Financial planners recommend that you save 30% of your take home income for housing. Well, for some of us, the utilities expense falls in the same percentile that really hurts the bottom line.
Typically, energy costs are considered unaffordable if they hit a threshold of above 6% of household income. Research shows that low-income households, especially renters and minority households, face disproportionate energy cost burdens.
According to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, ACEEE, the numbers are as follows:
Joey Bunch: "Without question, those with the least suffered the most the past year. Folks with lower-income jobs — restaurant and hotel workers, childcare providers, teachers, moms — are still