Making Affordable Housing Greener, Healthier, and More Resilient
Housing Sustainability Collaborative is a forum for 30+ member organizations – both developers (multifamily and single-family) and lenders – to ready property and lending portfolios for decarbonization and climate finance.
Geographic impact of readiness member support
Readiness Areas
To build capacity of members navigate the many and varied incentive programs, determine eligibility, braid and stack incentives, and build a strategy across a portfolio to optimize sequencing of decarbonization activities, HPN designed a robust direct support strategy in the form of consultant services through a three-pronged readiness approach
- Multifamily Developer Pipeline Development: Support developer/owner members to assess their portfolios and identify specific properties for decarbonization project scopes with technical assistance partners.
- CDFI Pipeline Development: Develop CDFI capacity for green underwriting by reviewing portfolios to identify and develop qualified projects and assess organizational capacity.
- Solar Investment Tax Credit: Develop tax structuring and financing strategies for several solar project typologies common among housing non-profits and CDFIs, focusing on enabling use of the Direct Pay provision to the Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit (Solar ITC).
Technical assistance providers include (list and expertise context).
Resources
For Multifamily Providers:
- Readiness - Action Steps for Decarbonizing Multifamily Housing
- Multifamily Portfolio Screening Method
- Multifamily Portfolio Screening Worksheet
For Lenders:
Participating Members
