Energy Cohort

The Energy Cohort is a peer learning group or “community of practice” for affordable housing professionals interested in energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate resiliency, and resident health to network, learn, and share information.

Participants are encouraged to share promising practices as well as challenges/barriers to adoption and advancement. Our goal is to support the affordable housing community in gaining expertise and successfully developing and preserving high-performance, resilient, and healthy buildings at scale.

We welcome both nonprofit and for-profit affordable housing stakeholders to join us. While certain discussion topics may be of particular interest to owners/developers, property managers, building trade professionals, and/or consultants, sessions are open to all interested professionals who have some role in energy/water stewardship, resiliency, and/or resident health at their respective organizations.

LISC, MACDC, and New Ecology co-convene the Energy Cohort, which builds on previous public forums and peer groups we have hosted that support capacity building for the sector. We source topics through direct partner requests as well as field surveys developed in collaboration with MACDC and housing finance agencies. Past topics include Solar Options for Affordable Housing, Climate Ready Affordable Housing, and Beneficial Electrification. Additional suggestions are welcome.

We host bimonthly meetings (currently virtual). Past session recordings are available here.