Sarah Olson Grants Management Specialist (ONAP), Sustainability Officer (OER) Sarah.D.Olson@hud.gov

1. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentClimate Change Adaptation Action PlanClimate Change Task Force DiscussionMay 1, 2014Communities: Human Health and Community Development i

2. Sarah Olson Grants Management Specialist (ONAP), Sustainability Officer (OER) Sarah.D.Olson@hud.gov

3. HUD’s Climate Action Plan • Developed in response to Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance. • Extreme heater, inundation, increased frequency of extreme weather strained HUD resources and helped HUD to implement programs and policy in areas of disaster recovery and preparedness, sustainability, planning, and energy efficiency/green building and to reduce exposure to the effects of changing climate while leading HUD to look at new opportunities. • Climate change affects indoor air environments and can affect human health, learning and productivity. • HUD is increasing collaboration across programs to develop place-based decisions and encouraging regional staff knowledge and customer input into policy decisions. Photo credit: Namaste Solar Accelerating Clean Energy Leadership

4. HUD’s Climate Action Plan • HUD is working with communities to better prepare for and respond to the effects of a changing climate. Examples include: • HUD environmental review process • Disaster recovery and preparedness • Sustainability planning and other planning efforts • Energy efficiency and green building. Photo credit: Namaste Solar Accelerating Clean Energy Leadership

5. Establishing a Renewable Energy Target for Federally Subsidized Housing 100 megawatts of installed renewable capacity on-site at federally subsidized housing by 2020 • expand the renewable energy sector • promote climate resilience and cost effective distributed generation in low income housing • curb carbon emissions • tools like Power Purchase Agreements make it possible • April 17, 2014 White House Solar Summit was convened. Photo credit: Namaste Solar Accelerating Clean Energy Leadership

6. Expanding the President’s Better Buildings Challenge Residential partners will pledge a 20 percent reduction in energy intensity for their portfolio by 2020 (or within 10 years). • Expands the Challenge to the multifamily sector, including market rate and affordable private owners, as well as Public Housing Agencies. • HUD and DOE will commit to deploying technical assistance, overcoming policy barriers, sharing successful strategies, and developing replicable models for cutting energy waste in homes. • Over 50 Multifamily Partners joined as of Secretary Donovan’s Earth Day address on April 22, 2014. • There are more than 360,000 energy efficient healthy housing units constructed/rehabbed over the past 4 years – a commitment to be expanded in 2014 and 2015. Cutting Energy Waste in Homes, Businesses, and Factories

7. Reducing the Barriers to Investment in Energy Efficiency • Bringing Energy Efficiency Financing to Scale: Showcasing the $23M Multifamily Energy Innovation Fund • Test new and innovative ways to cut energy bills and to finance energy efficiency upgrades in existing multifamily residential properties • Working with a dozen affordable housing providers, technology firms, academic institutions and philanthropic organizations Cutting Energy Waste in Homes, Businesses, and Factories

8. Pay for Success Energy Retrofits • Pay for Success/Social Impact Bonds – vehicle for attracting new investment around social, economic, and energy-related outcomes. Model has been tested in social programs (i.e., homeless services, reducing recidivism). • Leverages investor capital to provide upfront funding based on achieving a specific set of measurable outcomes for a target population. • Financial returns to investors are made by the public sector on the basis of improved outcomes (i.e., energy cost savings in affordable housing). • Potential benefits of an Energy Efficiency Pay for Success Model: 1) overcome lack of upfront public capital and barriers to private capital participation; 2) deliver energy investments at scale with limited transaction costs, and 3) attract private and philanthropic investment. Cutting Energy Waste in Homes, Businesses, and Factories

9. Leveraging policies to improve efficiency of federally owned and supported building stock • Synchronize building codes to improve the efficiency of federally owned and supported buildings. • Promote Energy Benchmarking , green capital needs assessments, and performance standards for existing buildings within the federally assisted housing stock. Federal Leadership

10. Increasing Energy Efficiency Standards • Energy Efficiency Alignment Framework for HUD and USDA: Federal Leadership

11. HUD Support of Climate Resilient Investment

12. Promise Zones https://www.onecpd.info/promise-zones/ Choctaw Nation and Thunder Valley CDC (Oglala Lakota) • Multi-agency Tribal Infrastructure Committee (MATIC) • Multi-agency funding forums • HUD presence at EPA Indoor Air Quality forums and Tribal Environmental Conferences. • CDBG Disaster Recovery Assistance – as appropriate by Congress, when disasters occur • ICDBG Imminent Threat • ICDBG single-purpose – environmental, planning, design, construction, benchmarking, labeling, and planning only grants for plans with options, i.e.. code ordinance review and updates, climate change impact studies. • ICDBG 2014 Mold Remediation and Prevention in Tribal Housing • IHBG – environmental, planning, design, construction, benchmarking and labeling. TDC variances for higher up front cost of green and energy efficient construction. • Title VI and Section 184 • Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grants and Challenge grants • Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) 2013 discretionary grant program. A DOT program, but HUD helps to increase awareness in Indian Country. • Share funding resources and training opportunities through weekly news bulletin, inclusive of many federal, state and non-profit funding opportunities.