"Soft story" buildings with weak ground floors proved vulnerable in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and are the focus of San Francisco's new seismic retrofitting mandate. SAN FRANCISCO, United States ...

In a move that demonstrates further action by the Trump administration to halt priorities of the Biden era, multiple outlets have reported that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. A new government program aims to tackle climate change upgrades in federal public rental housing units that most desperately need ...

As many as 70,000 people here live in old apartment buildings that are at risk of crumpling in a severe earthquake. At the same time, the city also suffers from an enormous housing shortage that makes ...

A planned housing development in New Haven has been awarded a federal grant of $450,000 by the Green and Resilient Retrofit Housing Program through the U.S Department of Housing & Urban Development’s ...

Energy retrofitting is becoming an increasingly popular way to recoup investments, attract and retain residents and address environmental concerns all at the same time. Owners throughout the ...

.@EmmaHarveyGreen from @GFI_green says the UK’s social housing sector is already ahead on its journey to net zero. With the right financial stimulus, it could be a model for how to decarbonise all UK ...

Unitil recently completed a large-scale, energy-efficient heating system retrofit at Concord Housing + Redevelopment’s 116-unit Crutchfield Apartments building. The building was outfitted with a ...

The Royal Institute of British Architects has urged the UK government to retrofit over three million homes in England to help cut carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty. In a report named Homes for ...

Ellen Dunham-Jones is a professor in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. June Williamson is an associate professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture ...