Expert Voices: When Affordable Housing Includes Affordable Energy

In Eastern Kentucky, rising electric bills threaten to erase hard-won gains in housing affordability. Rather than accept the status quo, HOMES, Inc. has developed a locally-driven solar model that helps lower utility costs, create jobs, and make net-zero housing a viable approach to affordability.

“We could keep building houses, but if people are being crushed by their power bills, we’re not really solving the housing problem.
— HOMES, Inc., Executive Director Seth Long.

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