NEW: FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 14X Template Language for EECS – Attachment B1 To streamline the process for implementing 14x Stimulus in your community, Architecture 2030 is providing a pre-written EECS – Attachment B1. Download the form.

Multiply Your Stimulus Dollars
14x Stimulus: a Plan for State and Local Governments

What if there was a way for states, cities, and counties to leverage each $1 of federal stimulus money spent to generate $14 of private spending, create 14 times the number of jobs, reimburse the federal government $3, and get $1 back to boot? Well, there is a way, the ‘14x Stimulus’ plan.

The plan, being proposed by Architecture 2030 and its partners ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, RESNET, and Veterans Green Jobs is a state/local version of Architecture 2030’s Two-Year, Nine-Million-Jobs Investment Plan. The effectiveness of the national plan in creating jobs and private spending has prompted these groups to propose a public/private partnership to strategically focus stimulus dollars that will enable a full-scale building industry revival while simultaneously addressing energy and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Read More
Take Action to Implement 14x Stimulus in Your Community
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: 14x Template Language for EECS – Attachment B1

Hope Resides in the Private Building Sector
The One-Year, 4.5-Million-Jobs Investment Plan

Because the private building sector represents 93% of total U.S. building stock, and building construction alone accounts for approximately 10% of the U.S. GDP, the private building sector is the key to reviving the U.S. economy. Investing $30 billion in the private building sector to provide a ‘housing mortgage interest rate buy-down’ for homes that meet or exceed the initial energy reduction target of the widely adopted 2030

Challenge will create 4.5 million new jobs and $296 billion in direct, non-federal investment and spending while opening up a new $47.6 billion renovation market that could grow to $1 trillion by 2030. This Plan returns to the federal government twice its investment annually through the new tax base created and can be implemented quickly through existing federal programs. Read More
Urge Your Representatives to Support the Plan