Low-carbon electricity, deep electrification-focused renovations, and smaller, electric new homes are part of decarbonization pathways for the US residential sector. Our new paper out in @NatureClimate with @EdgarHertwich @NREL rdcu.be/cSWD6 doi.org/10.1038/s41558… @NatureClimate @EdgarHertwich @NREL Clean electricity and renovations are the two big strategies with biggest impact at a national level.

But further reductions come from building electric, smaller new homes.

In our paper just published in @EnvSciTech, with @EdgarHertwich & Ken Gillingham, we show implications of US federal housing/tax policies on single- and multifamily housing supply, with implications for residential energy and emissions, a🧵doi.org/10.1021/acs.es… #housingtwitter @EnvSciTech @EdgarHertwich 2/ We look for effects of three federal policy changes affecting housing supply, the public housing moratorium in 1973, Tax Reform Act 1986, and Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act on the single/multifamily share of new housing