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 Welcome, Housing Institutions
Although housing institutions typically do not directly use innovative building technologies, their business practices can provide needed encouragement. Offering mortgage incentives for homes using energy-efficient systems and lowering insurance premiums in disaster areas for homes built with durable materials are two ways housing institutions can have a positive effect on the housing market.
PATH wants to ensure these groups recognize the impact housing technologies can have on the cost and quality of housing. PATH therefore provides information about technological innovations, presented without jargon, tied to costs, and consistent with the ways housing institutional and financial partners do business. PATH is developing programs relevant to procedures (considering the quality and cost of new housing technologies) for home appraisal, insurance rates, and mortgages.
PATH TOOLS
Field Evaluations
Builder sites where PATH assesses and evaluates technologies being used in housing.
Demonstration Sites
Builder sites where PATH assesses and evaluates technologies being used in housing, typically involving more units and technologies than do the evaluation sites.
Technology Stories
Success stories gathered by PATH to demonstrate the use of new housing technologies.
Technology Barriers Analysis
PATH's assessment of the barriers that slow or prevent a new housing technology from reaching the market.
OTHER TOOLS
- Information and Funding Resources
- Associations and Groups
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Content updated on 1/22/2002
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Partnership for Advancing
Technology in Housing (PATH)
451 7th Street, SW, Rm. 8134
Washington, DC 20410-0001
Telephone: 202 708-4277 Fax: 202 708-4250
E-mail: pathnet@pathnet.org |
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