Download or read book Energy Cost Burdens for Low Income and Minority Households in Six U S Cities written by Constantine E. Kontokosta and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the three primary components of housing affordability measures - housing cost, transportation costs, and utility costs - utility expenditures are the least understood, yet the one area where the cost burden can be reduced without household relocation. Existing data sources to measure energy costs are limited to surveys with small samples and low spatial and temporal resolution, such as the American Housing Survey and the Residential Energy Consumption Survey. This paper presents a new method to estimate household energy cost burdens that leverages actual building energy use data for 13,000 multi-family properties across six U.S. cities, and links energy costs to savings opportunities based on an analysis of 3,000 energy audit reports. We examine differentials in cost burdens across household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and analyze spatial, regional, and building-level variations in energy use and expenditures. We find that the average low-income household has an energy cost burden of 7%, whereas higher-income households have an average burden of 2%. Notably, we find that even within defined income bands, minority households experience higher energy cost burdens than non-Hispanic White households. For lower-income households, low-cost energy improvements could reduce energy costs by as much as $1,500 per year.
Download or read book Lifting the High Energy Burden in America s Largest Cities written by Ariel Drehobl and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on home energy bills. In this report, ACEEE, along with the Energy Efficiency for All coalition, measures the energy burden of households in 48 of the largest American cities. We find that low-income, African-American, Latino, low-income multifamily, and renter households all spend a greater proportion of their income on utilities than the average family. We also identify energy efficiency as an underutilized strategy that can help reduce high energy burdens by as much as 30%. Given this potential, we describe policies and programs to ramp up energy efficiency investments in low-income and underserved communities."--Publisher's description (viewed August 3, 2016).
Download or read book When Time is Money The Impact of Time of Use Electricity Rates on Energy Burden for Low Income Households written by Julia M. Hegarty and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the U.S. embarks on a historic transition to clean, renewable-based energy, utilities must grapple with new systems to control demand for electricity. One method is using time-of-use (TOU) rates, which increase the price of electricity during high demand periods, and decrease the price during periods of high renewable availability. These rates can be useful in encouraging homeowners to shift energy consumption like water heating, dishwashing, and air conditioning to midday, when solar energy is available. However, there is concern that low-income families, who are less likely to have flexible work schedules or new appliances with load shifting capabilities, may face higher costs due to these programs. In this thesis, I examine energy burden across America, to see if counties where TOU rates have been implemented have higher average energy burden for low-income households. Controlling for energy efficiency characteristics and ratepayer characteristics, I find that the average energy burden is lower for low-income households in counties that offer TOU rates. This result indicates that those TOU programs that were active in the period of observation did not impose a significant burden on those most vulnerable to high energy costs.
Download or read book Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household Energy Costs Under Climate Change written by Michael Craig and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High energy burdens challenge nearly a quarter of US households and could increase under climate change due to shifts in space heating and cooling. Using detailed building models, building physics-based simulations, and downscaled meteorological data, we quantify seasonal and annual household energy costs for roughly 3,000 households across seven U.S. cities under historic and future climates. Climate change will reduce annual energy costs for median households in heating-dominated cities by 3-9%. But climate change will increase summer energy costs for most households and cities, with the 10th and 50th percentile of households in each city seeing energy bill increases of more than 20% and 5%, respectively. Buildings with characteristics commonly associated with low-income households are particularly vulnerable to rising summer energy costs under climate change. Absent increasing household wages or support, our results suggest climate change will exacerbate summer energy burdens while alleviating winter energy burdens in most U.S. cities.
Download or read book Equity And Energy written by Mark N. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the energy price policies of the 1970s represented a major equity/efficiency trade-off and led to a dramatic decline in the living standard of lower income Americans, this book presents a comprehensive data-based assessment of the plight of lower income households between 1973 and 1983.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Water Electricity and the Poor written by Kristin Komives and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the prevalence and variants of consumer subsidies found in the developing world and the effectiveness of these subsidies for the poor. It places consumer subsidies in a broader social protection framework and compares them with poverty-focused programmes in other sectors using a common metric. It concludes that the most common subsidy instruments perform poorly in comparison with most other transfer mechanisms. Alternative consumption and connection subsidy mechanisms show more promise, especially when combined with complementary non-price approaches to making utility services accessible and affordable to poor households. The many factors contributing to those outcomes are dissected, identifying those that can be controlled and used to improve performance.
Download or read book Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing written by Heather L. Schwartz and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity, a 20-year philanthropic initiative begun in 2000 that has allocated $187 million to preserve privately owned affordable rental housing.
Download or read book Energy Justice in the Era of Green Transitions written by Edgar Liu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unpacking the Determinants and Burdens of Energy Assistance in the United States written by Michelle Graff (College teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy insecurity - a household's inability to pay their energy bills - challenges millions of low-income households. Recent scholarship provides evidence that this material hardship disproportionately affects households of color, renters, those that live in dilapidated housing, and those that rely on electronic medical devices. When a household's power is disconnected, they lose the ability to meet their basic needs, including heating and cooling, cooking and refrigeration, lighting, as well as connecting all electronic devices. This may lead to unsafe behaviors, including burning trash and/or using space heaters to heat homes, taking out high interest loans to pay a bill or restore their electric service, or making tradeoffs between paying their utility bills and purchasing other necessities for their families, such as nutritious food or healthcare services. As scholars learn more about the scope and scale of the domestic energy insecure population, it is critical that the literature simultaneously explores the solutions established to alleviate this material hardship. For this reason, my dissertation examines both the determinants and administration of energy assistance in the U.S. I rely on multiple sources of longitudinal data to conduct three empirical analyses.Employing the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and linear probability models with location fixed effects, I identify household characteristics, including demographics, housing and health measures, as well as participation in other government assistance programs, that predict household utility insecurity - operationalized as those that could not pay a utility bill - and receipt of energy assistance and compare how receipt aligns with need. I find that Black households, female-headed households, those living with more dilapidated housing conditions, and are already connected to social welfare programs are all more likely to experience utility insecurity as well as more likely to be an energy assistance recipient. However, the results reveal that Hispanic households, renters, and those with younger heads of households are less likely to be able to pay a utility bill but not more likely to receive assistance in paying this bill. These outcomes suggest that receipt of energy assistance does not align with need for certain members of the U.S. population.Next, I explore the administration of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the only federally funded program that helps low-income households pay their energy bills. Historically, LIHEAP is an underfunded block-grant program, only able to serve 20 to 25 percent of the income-eligible population each year. Using several secondary sources and original interview data with LIHEAP administrators, I exploit cross-state and over time variation in the program's eligibility requirements to conduct two-way fixed effects analyses. I explore if LIHEAP's eligibility procedures affect program outcomes, including enrollment and administrative costs (i.e. program efficiency). Across two different analyses, I find that when states reduce (increase) the administrative burdens, or hurdles that applicants have to overcome to participate in LIHEAP, and/or reduce (increase) red tape that employees face when administering the program, participation rates increase (decrease) and overhead costs decrease (increase). Taken in totality, this dissertation suggests that, in the absence of increased Congressional funding, domestic energy assistance programs could make administrative corrections to improve participation rates and efficiency. Specifically, the evidence implies that LIHEAP programs could target recruitment and outreach efforts to those most likely to experience energy insecurity but not more likely to receive assistance - Hispanic households, renters, and those with younger heads of household - as well as consider alterations to their eligibility requirements to maximize their limited budgets to enhance efficiency and increase enrollment.
Download or read book Energy Costs Urban Development and Housing written by Anthony Downs and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it all mean? Home energy costs and the housing of the poor and the elderly; Energy prices and urban decentralization; Energy and the existing stock of housing; New residential construction and energy costs; ...
Download or read book Financial Options for Energy Efficiency written by Urban Consortium Energy Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AI and Analytics for Smart Cities and Service Systems written by Robin Qiu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases state-of-the-art advances in service science and related fields of research, education, and practice. It presents emerging technologies and applications in contexts ranging from healthcare, energy, finance, and information technology to transportation, sports, logistics, and public services. Regardless of its size and service, every service organization is a service system. Due to the socio-technical nature of service systems, a systems approach must be adopted in order to design, develop and deliver services aimed at meeting end users’ utilitarian and socio-psychological needs alike. Understanding services and service systems often requires combining multiple methods to consider how interactions between people, technologies, organizations and information create value under various conditions. The papers in this volume highlight a host of ways to approach these challenges in service science and are based on submissions to the 2021 INFORMS Conference on Service Science.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 52nd American Solar Energy Society National Solar Conference 2023 written by Dave Renné and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights research presented during the American Solar Energy Society’s 52nd National Solar Conference (ASES SOLAR 2023) held at the University of Colorado Boulder. The conference, with the theme of “Transforming the Energy Landscape for All” attracted a broad base of solar and renewable energy professionals and thought leaders, including researchers, architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, installers, manufacturers, economists, finance professionals, and policymakers – providing a platform for the exchange of ideas, information and business insights and unbiased perspectives on progress toward greater sustainability. These conference papers explore best practices and major roadblocks from a variety of perspectives in the transformation towards 100% renewable energy in the United States, focusing on the challenges to advancing renewables through principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).
Download or read book Energy Efficiency for Low Income Housing written by Annette C. Guy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identifying the Interdisciplinary Determinants Biologic Mechanisms and Best Practices for the Prevention and Elimination of Minority Health Disparities written by Allison A. Appleton and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
