Climate Change
Building Decarbonization Could Push Out Low-Income Renters. A San Francisco Program Hopes to Prevent That
A Mission District demonstration project is gauging the cost of fully electrifying low-income rental properties while others will work to convince landlords and tenants of the benefits.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—On a Wednesday in late September, Amparo Vigil showed a contractor around the modest, three-story building she owns in San Francisco’s outer Mission District. The contractor—just one of a handful visiting the building that week—toured the top floor apartment, where Vigil lives with her grandchildren, and the two one-bedroom units she rents out on the second floor. He took a close look at the kitchens, the furnaces and the electrical paneling and used a drone to get a good view of the roof.
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