About Energy Efficiency for All

Mission

To address and improve the intersecting issues of housing and energy insecurity for people and communities.

Energy Efficiency for All (EEFA) is a partnership between 42 organizations and groups working across 12 states building the power to advance racial equity, and environmental and energy justice through healthy, energy efficient, and affordable housing in disinvested frontline communities with historical inequities and disproportionate energy burdens. EEFA partners include a variety of housing, health, energy efficiency, environmental, and community advocacy organizations.

Challenge

The threat of climate change has inspired a global movement to ensure that humans have a future and that we cease our reckless assault on the planet. This movement has many facets and the magnitude of the crisis often fails to recognize the core problem: we can’t lose our homes. Solutions to climate change often purposefully ignore or leave behind the needs of BIPOC and under-resourced communities, even when those communities are at severe and immediate risk of climate displacement.

Concurrently, a long history and continuation of systemically oppressive and racist policies in housing, energy, and the environment have created barriers to equitable housing and energy affordability and accessibility — leaving communities under-resourced and increasingly vulnerable to climate-related disasters.

Vision

EEFA envisions a world where all people are guaranteed resilient, healthy, and affordable clean energy and housing. This requires the transformation of racist policies and practices to ensure that resilient and healthy housing is guaranteed for people and communities that have been left behind and that a system is in place that helps residents mitigate and bounce back after the next crisis — not simply survive it.

Resilience must be measured by the ability to protect the most vulnerable members of our society from rising energy and housing costs and the unavoidable disasters that occur with troubling regularity. Resiliency requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions, removing fossil fuels from our homes, eliminating the burden of high home energy and housing costs, and improving the health and quality of our housing.

Healthy homes are safe and clean for their residents. Healthy homes can be achieved through energy efficiency, weatherization, electrification, and broader health and safety upgrades. Healthy homes consider the whole house, whole community, and whole person, recognizing the health of a home depends also on the individual and community context.

Affordable homes are resilient and healthy, accessible for all types of residents, and do not put residents at risk of energy burden. This means affordable energy rates, but also access to energy efficiency, conservation, and other energy programs that support management of energy costs. Affordable homes may include homes that are rented, homes that are purchased, and homes in the process of ownership or provided under public, community, or collective ownership models.