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Laila Reilly
Proposer First Name
Laila
Proposer Email
lailareilly@magrann.com
Proposer Last Name
Reilly
Proposer Job Title
Director of Business Development
Proposed Session Description
In 2022, HCR released Sustainability Guidelines for New Construction, Existing Buildings and Preservation projects, designed to produce and maintain high quality housing across NY and provide low-income tenants with improved health, safety, and well-being. Since then, HCR has made updates to incorporate lessons learned, market feedback and best practices. This session will review updates and offer perspectives on opportunities and challenges for meeting 2023 Sustainability Guidelines.
Why is this session important?
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) is the State’s affordable housing agency, with a mission to build, preserve, and protect affordable housing and increase homeownership throughout New York State. HCR is carrying out Governor Hochul’s $25 billion, five-year, comprehensive housing plan to increase housing supply by creating or preserving 100,000 affordable homes across New York including 10,000 with support services for vulnerable populations, plus the electrification of an additional 50,000 homes. HCR is one of the most important sources of funding to advance delivery of affordable housing in New York. The updated Sustainability Guidelines address necessary strategies project teams must evaluate to align with the State’s ambitious climate goals, while providing quality living for low-income tenants with improved health, safety, and well-being. Reduction or removal of fossil-fuel based sources from buildings not only aligns with the carbon-reduction goals of the CLCPA, it also has many benefits to tenants including reduced risk of fire, improved indoor air quality, and elimination of potential carbon monoxide exposure.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
Our primary speaker is both gender and racially diverse person.
Learning Objectives
Improve understanding of the guidelines to help applicants navigate minimum requirements vs additional and advanced measures of sustainable design and performance.
Differentiate funding criteria and commitments for new construction and existing building rehabs.
Learn to navigate the guideline’s minimal performance standards of envelope, mechanical, and plumbing systems as well as other mandatory criteria addressing health, equity, and resilience.
Understand challenging facing new construction, Adaptive Reuse, and moderate/Substantial Rehabilitation projects to comply with available Stretch Certification requirements.
Has this session been presented before?
No
Target Audiences Level of Expertise
Level 3 - Prior knowledge strongly recommended.

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Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) is the State’s affordable housing agency, with a mission to build, preserve, and protect affordable housing and increase homeownership throughout New York State. HCR is carrying out Governor Hochul’s $25 billion, five-year, comprehensive housing plan to increase housing supply by creating or preserving 100,000 affordable homes across New York including 10,000 with support services for vulnerable populations, plus the electrification of an additional 50,000 homes. In parallel, HCR is working to put current and future affordable housing projects on the path to meeting New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (“Climate Act”), which mandates at least a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and at least 85% reduction by 2050, compared to New York State’s 1990 carbon emission levels. For projects seeking funding through HCR, this will mean dramatically improving building efficiency by enhancing the building envelope performance and reducing onsite carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning systems. In 2022, HCR released Sustainability Guidelines for New Construction, Existing Buildings, and Preservation projects, designed to produce and maintain high quality housing across the New York State to provide low-income tenants with improved health, safety, and well-being. Since then, HCR has updated the Sustainability Guidelines to incorporate lessons learned, feedback from the market, and best practices developed in the past year. This session will review the updates and offer perspective on opportunities and challenges for meeting HCR’s 2023 Sustainability Guidelines
Reviewer 1
Altavilla, Jeannine
Proposal #
132
Committee Decision
Rejected

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