National Housing Trust

National Housing Trust (NHT) protects and improves existing affordable rental homes so that low income individuals and families can live in quality neighborhoods with access to opportunities. The organization has preserved or helped to preserve more than 25,000 affordable homes through real estate development, lending, and technical assistance. Currently, NHT owns and operates over 2,500 affordable rental units across the East Coast.

In 2023, National Housing Trust met its Better Building Challenge (BBC) goal of portfolio-wide energy savings of at least 20 percent. Following that success, NHT made a commitment to the Better Climate Challenge (BCC) with a goal to reduce portfolio-wide GHG emissions intensity by 50% over ten years. NHT is taking the lessons learned from its BBC experience to develop and implement a roadmap that guides choice points in its portfolio as NHT works towards its BCC goals. Assessing existing properties for energy and emissions improvement opportunities is also a key strategy NHT is employing to achieving BCC goals.

PORTFOLIO-WIDE LEADERSHIP COMMITMENTS

50% emissions reduction in 10 years

20% reduction in energy intensity

Webinar

Growing Your Green Team: Engaging Residents and Staff for Successful Emissions Reduction Projects

Presentation

Improving Internal Coordination on Energy and Emissions Goals

Presentation

Many Journeys, One Destination: Pathways Towards Electrification in Multifamily Housing

Presentation

Multifamily Financial Roundtable: Financing Energy Efficiency and Electrification

Presentation

Multifamily Financial Roundtable: Financing Energy Efficiency and Electrification

Presentation

Building Equitable Communities with Building Performance Standards

Presentation

Building Equitable Communities with Building Performance Standards

Webinar

Balancing the Benefits of Community Solar in Multifamily Housing

Webinar

Multifamily BBC Webinar Series: Using 3rd Party Software for Successful Utility Benchmarking

Presentation

Partnering with your Utility to Get Whole-Building Data in Multi-Tenant Buildings

Presentation

Partnering with your Utility to Get Whole-Building Data in Multi-Tenant Buildings

Showcase Project

Channel Square Apartments

Showcase Project

Friendship Court

Implementation Model

National Housing Trust Stabilizes Utility Costs by Installing Solar Systems

Performance Data

Solutions

Leadership Commitments

Better Climate Challenge

Goal

Commitment

Better Buildings Challenge

Goal

Commitment

Progress

DOE Program Participation