Enhancing Housing Supply by Driving All-Electric & Affordable New Construction
6/12/25 @ 1:00PM
Conti Room
The Basics
What does This mean?
In order to meet our goal that by 2050, everyone in the United States will live, work, learn, and gather in healthy, affordable, and safe buildings that are free of fossil fuels, we need all new buildings (residential and commercial) to be built all-electric and fossil-fuel free.
We are in the midst of a housing crisis, and there is a huge demand for affordable housing.
There are many ways to achieve all-electric new construction: building codes, gas line extension reforms to reduce and remove subsidies, building performance standards, emissions standards, gas distribution carbon fees, etc.
Why Does This Matter?
Low and extremely low income households disproportionately experience severe energy burden.
We need to support building new affordable, energy efficient, all-electric new housing.
In most geographies across the country, it is more affordable to build all-new electric buildings than to build new buildings with gas. Building all-electric new construction is also more cost-effective than retrofitting older buildings.
How can this advance equitable building decarbonization?
Increases access to clean, affordable, safe, and healthy buildings for work, play, and home.
Incentivizing owner investment in efficiency and electrification can increase the availability of efficient and electric options