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E4TheFuture: Weatherization Barriers Toolkit 

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Overview

Read the document which provides an overview of challenges that health and safety barriers create, and guidance for overcoming them. 

How to Address Health and Safety Barriers with an Income-Eligible Focus

Prepared by Elizabeth Bourguet and Richard Faesy (Energy Futures Group) and Ellen Tohn (Tohn Environmental Strategies) – April 2022

Funded by E4TheFuture, this toolkit document articulates “lessons learned” from Connecticut’s process 2014-22 as the state sought to address health and safety barriers in low-income homes to enable participation in the federally-funded Weatherization Assistance Program and the utility-funded Home Energy Solutions Income-Eligible Program. It provides an overview of challenges that health and safety barriers create, and guidance for overcoming them. 

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Related Resources

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Weatherization Assistance Program Funding Report 2021

Download the Weatherization Assistance Program's 2021 funding report from the National Association for State Community Services Programs.

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Weatherization Readiness Fund Webinar 

Watch this webinar that discusses the required submission of the WRF plan, implications for NEPA and SHPO compliance, and examples of coordination of WRF funds with existing deferral reduction programs.

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Mitigating Barriers to Weatherization 

Watch as presenters discuss models for barrier mitigation in the WAP.