Last summer CHPC released the All Green Buildings Great and Small study, which identified barriers to implementing energy efficiency improvements in small and midsize buildings. Shortly thereafter we held a roundtable with industry experts and government actors to...
Last Tuesday, in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners, CHPC hosted a roundtable focusing on the demographic of small to mid size building owners. In our report, All Buildings Great and Small, we discovered that this group of building owners often does not...
CHPC will be hosting a round table discussion with industry professionals designed to help policymakers improve the coordination of existing programs and identify what policies are missing that new programs should address. Using our report, All Green Buildings Great...
On Tuesday, CHPC staff visited Coney Island to tour the nearly-complete Coney Island Commons – the fantastic result of a collaboration between CHPC board members Andrea Kretchmer, Larry Hirschfield and William Stein. Coney Island Commons is a mixed-use...
The good news is that it is getting easier to implement sustainable design in our built environment – and in particular for housing. For the last several years, CHPC has strongly advocated for the removal of regulatory barriers that discourage green development in New...
1) ‘CONSERVE ENERGY BY OCCUPYING SMALLER SPACES’ a) It is actually illegal under the Multiple Dwelling Law for more than 3 unrelated people to share a housing unit b) Multiple Dwelling Law, the Zoning Resolution and real estate tax exempt programs set out minimum...
