. @RepAishaGomez at Climate Action Caucus making the point that half of MN housing is rental, and that the split incentives for who pays for efficiency and who gets the benefit of reduced energy costs need to be fixed. This is a climate justice issue.

We now have Anshan Zaman from @CEED_Justice who describes how public money goes to important energy assistance through LIHEAP, but we don’t make the same kind of public investments in efficiency for low-income households. Space to make improvement here!

And now @BenPasser from @FreshEnergy is up. He clarified that under-resourced is preferred term instead of low-income. Thanks for clarification. I’ll make the change in my use of language.

Some exciting examples from @BenPasser describing other state efforts, including WA state and NY State. Starting to hear a refrain that intentionally focusing investment in efficiency on under-resourced and energy-cost burdened households and to increase this investment overall.

Rep @Jamiemlong asking the question of how much would need to be invested to weatherize all the under-resourced households eligible. Answer: Currently MN does 1600-2000/year. And there are over 100,000 households eligible. Roughly, each costs about $8000. (All rough numbers).