The City of Chicago plans to invest $15 million to make low and moderate income apartments more energy efficient.
at no cost to them by 2025, with the funding coming from the Chicago Recovery Plan, a collection of bond funds created to address the economic impact of the Covid pandemic. The work will be carried out by one or more third party providers chosen through the request for proposals, and the initiative will be implemented by the city’s Department of Housing.
An ordinance proposed in Chicago would ban gas heating and cooking in new construction, but even without such mandates, new homes are increasingly being built with electrification in the Chicago area. Initiatives like the one outlined in the request for proposals are crucial to helping lower income people electrify since they are less likely to live in new buildings.
“Small multi-unit buildings are traditionally a really tough nut to crack,” said Moskowitz. “Oftentimes the inhabitants aren’t necessarily high-income but they may not qualify for other programs” for low income residents. “This framing of the issue points to a gap. We’re excited to see the potential and what some of the responders come up with.”
Moskowitz said that if wealthier people can afford to invest in heat pumps and electric stoves, there’s a danger lower income people will be “left behind” in the gas system and end up paying an even larger portion of gas infrastructure costs.
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