Residential Housing Characteristics Study

California’s climate and energy goals depend on electrification throughout many sectors of the existing building stock, and single-family residences are necessarily included in this electrification roadmap. Unique attention must be given to disadvantaged communities, low-income, and hard-to-reach Californians. This study was devised to collect data that may be useful to craft policy and design programs to achieve residential decarbonization in low disadvantaged communities. This study took two approaches to solving this problem: analysis of existing housing stock data and in person housing characteristic surveys. This report includes US Census data findings and summarizes housing and demographic characteristics of low-income households.  Although initial results from the field surveys are promising, the study includes only 50 surveys and has little statistical weight. The results of the field surveys do, however, begin to formulate a clear picture of low-income household’s electrification readiness.