The city’s new pilot program to replace gas stoves in Dorchester is a win for residents, the community, and the environment. According to a March 3rd report by Maddie Khaw in The Boston Globe, “residents will no longer rely on gas for cooking. Boston received $1 million in federal funding to retrofit 80 gas stoves to electric in two affordable housing communities, the Boston Housing Authority’s Franklin Field Apartments and Talbot Bernard Homes, which is run by the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation. The residents in the historically underserved low-income communities are mostly Black and Latino.
The city and its partners are doing this by directing the grant funds toward affordable housing units, then assessing the impacts on tenants to evaluate if more widespread electrification in city homes is justified and the best practices and procedures for implementation.
‘We’re using federal funding to really create a model for how you can do this without disrupting occupants,’ [Boston Green New Deal director Oliver] Sellers-Garcia said. ‘It’ll help everyone — both tenants and property owners — understand how to do this smoothly and in a way that makes people most comfortable and happy.‘”
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