{"id":217153,"date":"2026-05-01T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217153\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:09:38","slug":"bronx-property-owners-and-workforce-push-back-against-state-weatherization-program-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217153\/","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":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[85619,128,62087,85620,4739,895,82661,85621,9,24,63,1491,2393,129,131,130,655,41628,85622,85623],"class_list":["post-217153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-association-for-energy-affordability","tag-bronx","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-nyc","tag-real-estate","tag-south-bronx","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-trump-administration","tag-weatherization","tag-weatherization-assistance-program","tag-workforce-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}