{"id":140335,"date":"2026-01-31T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=140335"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:50:10","slug":"can-cities-make-landlords-care-about-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/can-cities-make-landlords-care-about-energy-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Can cities make landlords care about energy efficiency?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the federal government retreating from climate action, cities and states have increasingly stepped in to ease emissions and address the crisis. But new research finds that those efforts often fail to reach renters \u2014 one of the largest and most vulnerable segments of the housing market \u2014 leaving a persistent gap in local climate policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roughly one-third of U.S. households rent, according to\u00a0a Redfin analysis<\/a>\u00a0of Census Bureau data \u2014 about 46 million in all, and they tend to be lower income.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With the federal government retreating from climate action, cities and states have increasingly stepped in to ease emissions and address the crisis. But new research finds that those efforts often … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":140340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1737,58,61,5,47],"tags":[914],"class_list":["post-140335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-government","category-housing-sector","category-news","category-north-america","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}