income-based policies
What’s New About Income-Graduated Fixed Charges?
California is in the process of making income-graduated fixed rates a part of ratepayers’ electric bills. This is the second post in a series that follows that proceeding.
California’s new income-graduated fixed charge (IGFC) policy makes two major moves. The IGFC 1) unbundles costs from volumetric rates and shifts a portion of those costs into a separate fixed charge and 2) imposes the fixed charge on the basis of income. The IGFC has been described as unprecedented—but just what is new about this …
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CONTINUE READINGIncome-Targeted Environmental Policies, Episode 2
Affordable housing and the Transit-Oriented Communities program
This is the second post in a short series on income-targeted environmental policies. You can read the first post, introducing the concept of “Area Median Income,” here. In this second part of my series on income-targeted environmental programs, I want to talk about affordable housing, and one particular housing program, Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC). TOC has …
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CONTINUE READINGIncome-Targeted Environmental Policies, Episode 1
An introduction to AMI
This is the first post in a short series on income-targeted environmental policies. Read the second post, on LA’s Transit-Oriented Communities program, here. As environmental law becomes more concerned with the equity of policy outcomes, income-targeted policy elements are becoming more and more common. This should be a good thing: income is closely correlated with …
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