Yet options are still limited for financing home energy improvements, especially for the many homeowners who are unable to take out a home equity loan or access an affordable consumer loan. HUD today ...

HOLLAND — The first day of winter is nearly upon us. For bright-eyed and cold-hardy winter enthusiasts, this time of year brings anticipation of snowmen in the front yard, pond hockey and powdery ...

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Even in this new era where hundreds of words are getting erased from U.S. government websites, one wouldn’t imagine a word like “retrofit” to be offensive, especially when retrofitting a building or a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- "Too good to be true. Perfect timing. It's something I've been wanting to do for years." That's what San Jose homeowner Leo Hartung thinks about the state's Earthquake Brace ...

The groups said initial post-fire retrofits and designations have been completed through GER3’s Eaton Wildfire Recovery Program. GER3 said it is working to mitigate more than 50 homes in Altadena and ...

Homeowners in some Southern California cities will be eligible for a seismic retrofit grant of up to $13,000 to protect against structural vulnerabilities to earthquakes. The pilot program is part of ...

President Barack Obama outlined details of a home retrofitting program on Tuesday that would provide consumers with on-the-spot rebates of $1,000 or more. Speaking at Savannah Technical College in ...

Is your home earthquake ready? If it's not, there's a way to get it ready. The California Earthquake Authority wants to help homeowners prepare for the "big one" and save money at the same time. Even ...

It is a housing design common across California: single-family homes with living spaces atop garages. But seismic experts are now raising alarms about this style, saying it is vulnerable to collapse ...

Bureaucratic ineptitude ruined the U.K.’s disastrous home retrofit program, and the U.S. could draw valuable lessons from the debacle. Last summer the U.K. unveiled a “build back better” economic ...