Boston housing authorities have launched a groundbreaking initiative providing efficient window heat pumps to affordable housing residents, showing how accessible technology can deliver comfort and dramatic energy savings to communities that need it most, per Canary Media.
Officials announced plans to equip the Hassan Apartments with plug-in heating and cooling units that can be installed in around half an hour. The 100-unit community serves older residents and adults with disabilities and previously relied on outdated electric heating systems.
“We believe that low-income people and the families and individuals who live in our buildings deserve access to 21st-century technologies and home comforts, just like anyone else out there,” said Joel Wool, the agency’s deputy administrator for sustainability and capital transformation. “We’re also doing our part to reduce air pollution and combat climate change.”…