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Yesler residents, housing leaders highlight how $200 credit and efficiency upgrades will help households

State press event (Yesler Terrace opening) · July 29, 2024
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At Yesler Terrace’s Sawara building opening, a resident demonstrated the enrollment site and described how the $200 credit and onsite solar and efficiency measures will ease household budgets; housing leaders said the program prioritizes households at 80% AMI and below.

At a press event at Yesler Terrace, residents and affordable-housing leaders described how the newly available $200 utility credit and building-level efficiency upgrades will help low- and moderate-income households manage utility costs.

Patience Malaba, CEO of the Housing Development Consortium, said the program requires utilities to prioritize households at 80% of area median income and below during rollout and framed the effort as an equity imperative. "Ensuring access to affordable…

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