SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Designing a Decarbonization- Ready Common Home Assessment

该项目将使能源，健康和公平研究人员和社区组织（CBO）的跨学科团队为CBO开发一个基于研究的工具包，负责帮助有色人种的低收入家庭获得援助，融资和旨在促进住房和能源安全的激励计划。拟议的第一阶段工作的重点是进行合作设计过程，以制定脱碳准备共同家庭评估，然后可以在密歇根州底特律市的第二阶段进行试点。这项工作还将计划编制外联和培训材料，以支持评估的实施，并制定研究协议，以评估对低收入家庭和服务提供者的影响。该项目建立在底特律研究人员，CBO和社区团体之间的现有合作基础上，旨在更好地将符合条件的家庭与可用的公共资源联系起来。尽管组织之间的合作努力，社会服务的情况下，经理不断报告的挫折感，客户谁是有资格从多个程序的服务往往是气馁的需要进行重复和重复的家庭评估。该项目是对一个共同的家庭评估协议的反复要求的直接回应，该协议可以在多个程序中使用，以最大限度地提高效率，并照亮可能不会立即明显取决于原始摄入点的额外机会。它还考虑到现有评估没有绘制并行或逐步投资的途径以脱碳和改善家庭空气质量的关切。为了开发这一首个脱碳准备共同家庭评估，研究团队将汇集建筑知识，技术能力，结缔组织，并在底特律众多社区组织，环保团体，能源研究人员，市政和公用事业工作人员，负责家庭评估和能源升级的技术人员以及各种其他利益相关者之间进行购买。该项目还将包括开发一个外联和培训材料工具包，并探索通过应用先进的工程和数据科学技术来简化数据收集和可视化的机会，以支持其实施。将制定研究方案，以评估对低收入家庭和服务提供者的影响。该工具的试点和评估将在第二阶段实施。将记录共同家庭评估的效力，作为一个以研究为基础的最佳做法工具包，可推广到其他区域。该项目是CIVIC创新挑战赛的一部分，该挑战赛是NSF、能源部车辆技术办公室、国土安全部科学技术局和联邦应急管理局的合作项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will enable an interdisciplinary team of energy, health, and equity researchers and community-based organizations (CBOs) develop a research-based toolkit for CBO’s charged with helping low-income families of color access assistance, financing, and incentive programs designed to promote housing and energy security. The focal point of the proposed Phase I effort is to undertake a collaborative design process to develop a Decarbonization-Ready Common Home Assessment that then can be piloted during Phase II in Detroit, Michigan. This effort will also plan for the development of outreach and training materials to support implementation of the Assessment, and research protocols to evaluate impact on low-income households and service providers. This project builds on existing collaborations in Detroit between researchers, CBO’s, and neighborhood groups aimed at better connecting eligible homes with available public resources. Despite collaboration efforts between organizations, social services case managers consistently report frustration that clients who are eligible for services from multiple programs are often discouraged by the need to undertake repetitive and duplicative home assessments. This project is a direct response to repeated requests for a common home assessment protocol that can be used across multiple programs to maximize efficiency and illuminate additional opportunities that may not be immediately apparent depending on the original point of intake. It also takes into account expressions of concern that existing assessments do not map the pathway for concurrent or stepwise investments to decarbonize and improve air quality of homes. To develop this first of its kind Decarbonization-Ready Common Home Assessment, the research team will bring together building knowledge, technical capacity, connective tissue, and buy-in among Detroit’s numerous community-based organizations, environmental groups, energy researchers, municipal and utility staff, technicians tasked with home assessments and energy upgrades, and a variety of other stakeholders. The project will also include development of a toolkit of outreach and training materials, and explore opportunities to streamline data collection and visualization through application of advanced engineering and data science techniques to support its implementation. Research protocols will be established to evaluate impact on low-income households and service providers. Piloting and assessment of the Tool will be implemented during Phase 2. Efficacy of a Common Home Assessment will be documented to serve as a research-based best practice toolkit that will be extensible to other regions. This project is part of the CIVIC Innovation Challenge which is a collaboration of NSF, the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technology Office, and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.