Residential energy survey
Affordable housing is a priority for Oregon's executive and legislative branches. Oregon's building codes are continually setting updated, energy efficient standards for new homes.
These improved standards create healthier homes, reduce energy costs, and have a positive effect on the environment. However, these improvements can also increase the purchase price for the consumer, which impacts housing affordability.
We need your assistance by participating in a short survey. Your responses will help develop safe, resilient, effective, efficient, and affordable energy codes in the future. Please respond by close of business on December 3.
Survey background
The Residential and Manufactured Structures Board (RMSB), which is responsible for residential code adoption, requested that the Building Codes Division convene a panel to look into construction costs and housing prices as they relate to energy code improvements. This includes whether special provisions can, or should, be applied based on the size of the home.
Before the panel convenes, the division is engaging with those involved in residential construction with a concentration on the Low and Middle-Income (LMI) housing marketplace. Every dollar of increase in a mortgage payment excludes more buyers, especially low income buyers, but lower energy expenses offset increases in those higher mortgage payments.
We request your assistance to find the balance point between lower energy costs and home prices. This survey is part of our preliminary research to bring to the panel. If you are interested in directly participating in the code development and adoption process, or if you would like to know more about the process, contact:
Kelly Thomas
Energy Policy Analyst
kelly.i.thomas@dcbs.oregon.gov
503-373-0886
Mark Heizer
Mechanical and Energy Systems Engineer
mark.r.heizer@dcbs.oregon.gov
503-373-0205
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