Green and Affordable Housing in Canada: Investment Strategies of Social Housing Organisations
Description:
Recognising the high impact of energy savings in the residential sector, the government has introduced The Renewable Energy Initiative in 2009 providing $70 million for energy efficiency upgrades of existing and new social housing with another $2 billion in Canada's Economic Action Plan. In the context of this new political commitment this research paper will focus on the following objectives: i) to review of national and provincial policies and programs to implement energy efficiency retrofits in social housing; and ii) to identify preferred investment strategies and policy responses by different social housing provider —public, private non-profit and community (cooperative) in select case studies.
The research will investigate the implementation of energy efficiency programs in the social housing sector in Ontario and British Columbia. This research is exploratory in nature and provides the first systematic evaluation of energy efficiency residential programs in Canada using an interdisciplinary framework of analysis. At the project level, attention will be paid to results achieved in the implementation of energy efficiency retrofits such as: quality, technical and financial aspects, technology (types of energy efficiency measures), financial risks and cost recovery.
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication #:
ENHR Conference 2011 – 5-8 July, Toulouse, France
Publication Date:
2011
Location:
Canada