{"id":767061,"date":"2026-05-02T00:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:43:22","slug":"bronx-property-owners-and-workforce-push-back-against-state-weatherization-program-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767061\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx property owners and workforce push back against state weatherization program cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/otda.ny.gov\/workingfamilies\/wap.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York State Weatherization Assistance Program<\/a> (WAP), which helps low and moderate-income property owners pay for energy-efficient home improvements, is facing a major cut in the state budget, which advocates say puts homes and jobs at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the program, which is federally funded and administered by NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), covers costs for income-qualified property owners who want to make their building more environmentally friendly, safer, and, in many cases, cheaper to operate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/bronx-property-owners-and-workforce-push-back-against-state-weatherization-program-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBronx property owners and workforce push back against state weatherization program cuts &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The New York State Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), which helps low and moderate-income property owners pay for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":636615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,314761,132999,314762,26865,52624,40668,314763,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,82899,4352,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,314764,164950,174558],"class_list":["post-767061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-association-for-energy-affordability","tag-energy-costs","tag-energy-bill-assistance","tag-federal-funding","tag-governor-kathy-hochul","tag-green-jobs","tag-heating-and-cooling","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate","tag-south-bronx","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weatherization","tag-weatherization-assistance-program","tag-workforce-training"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}