ArticleScience advances2024
US federal resource allocations are inconsistent with concentrations of energy poverty.
Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The Hidden Costs of Shifting Away from Flexible Packaging: Implications for Food Prices, Access, and Food Waste Among Low-Income U.S. Households.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Indoor Thermal Environments, Cooling Access, and Energy Burden in New Orleans, LA: Challenges and Opportunities for Heat Adaptation.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- Tunable and computationally efficient framework for retrofitting: Budget allocation using income and spatial equity.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
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Abstract
Recent data from the US Energy Information Administration reveals that nearly one in three households in the United States report experiencing energy poverty, and this number is only expected to rise. Federal assistance programs exist, but allocations across states have been nearly static since 1984, while the distribution of energy poverty is dynamic in location and time. We implement a LASSO-based machine learning approach using sociodemographic and geographical information to estimate energy burden in each US census tract for 2015 and 2020. We then compare the allocation to states from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to an optimized allocation. We allocate funds to the most burdened households, providing them with enough assistance to reduce their energy expenditures so that their household energy burden is equal to a new maximum allowable energy burden. This markedly shifts funds from the northern cold-weather states to the southern warm-weather states.
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