Energy Efficiency Forum - MAY 16, 2013

Come hear about new funding and financing opportunities for low-income, multifamily buildings! Please join us for an energy efficiency forum hosted by the City of Boston to learn more about the technical assistance and funding opportunities available to you, both within the City and across Massachusetts.

Thursday, May 16
9:30-11:30
Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Fort Point Room, 2nd Floor

We’ll discuss:
• LEAN Multifamily – the utility ratepayer-funded program
• Massachusetts Green Retrofit Initiative – Boston LISC and New Ecology’s free technical assistance program to implement energy retrofits
• BRA’s Energy Retrofit Funding Program – funding for buildings in Boston
• Mass Clean Energy Center – new programs to implement solar thermal and fuel cells
• Winn Development Open Market ESCO – a new financing opportunity for energy savings
• Energy Performance Improvement Program – a new loan program for Mass Housing Partnership borrowers

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Resilient Communities/Resilient Families in the News!

Boston Neighborhood Network News covered the Resilient Communities/Resilient Families Community Contract Rollout on Thursday April 25th with interviews with several of the community leaders. You can see the video here.

Last week Bob Van Meter had a chance to sit down in the BNN studio for a follow up conversation on the Resilient Communities/Resilient Families community contracts, particularly focused on the Fairmount Corridor and the MilleniumTen effort. See video here.

For more information on the Resilient Communities/Resilient Families go to rc-rf.org

Community Contract Roll Out!

The LISC Resilient Communities/Resilient Families Initiative in Roxbury, Codman Square/Four Corners, and Mattapan has organized hundreds of neighbors over the last 18 months to develop strategies to advance healthier and more prosperous neighborhoods. Their work has included thousands of community surveys, hundreds of one on one interviews, and dozens of community meetings. Each neighborhood has now completed a community contract and dozens of new leaders have signed up to champion their causes. Join them for a debut of their vision and an invitation to join their work.

Beyond Bricks and Mortar Programs and Current State Initiatives

Beyond Bricks and Mortar: An Overview of Programs and Current State Initiatives for Resident Services for Affordable Housing Projects
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Boston Bar Association - 16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA

Resident services designed to help low-income families find and access services are critical in fostering positive outcomes are critical affordable housing developments that seek to create healthy and stable communities enhance resident's life prospects. This brownbag will provide a basic overview of current resident service programs typically found in elderly and family affordable housing communities and discuss state-level initiatives to improve the coordination of resident service delivery. Read more...

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Three Decades of Rebirth and Renewal in Boston - The Boston Globe by Bob Van Meter

Excerpt:
This week marks an important civic anniversary — the start of a movement that gave the people of Greater Boston a say in what happens in their neighborhoods, and gave many of those neighborhoods a second life.
Thirty years ago a group of local visionaries looked around and saw a Boston crumbling under the weight of urban blight — rising crime, vacant lots, abandoned houses. Corruption plagued the city programs that were supposed to come to the rescue and community groups had little voice.
Those far-sighted leaders looked outside to a newly formed national corporation based in New York whose mission was to help neighborhoods find their way out of poverty. That group with a mouthful for a name — the Local Initiative Support Corp. — agreed to set up its first local office here in Boston.
Today, Boston is a safer, healthier and yes, prettier place, where neighborhoods once written off as hopeless now thrive. LISC didn’t know how to make that happen alone, but it knew how to bring together the people who could: philanthropists, bankers, community leaders, businesses and, maybe most important, the residents themselves, who always know best what their neighborhoods need to get back on their feet. Read more...

MHP Launches New Program to Fund Energy Improvements

There is now a new tool for affordable housing owners looking for ways to pay for energy retrofits!  The Massachusetts Housing Partnership just launched a new loan program, called the Energy Performance Improvement Program (EPIP). to help affordable housing owners make energy improvements.  The new loan program is available to owners that have first-mortgage financing from MHP. Up to $15,000 in funding per unit is available in performance-based financing to implement energy efficiency and conservation strategies that will lead to at least a 15 percent reduction in utility use.