Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird
The South of Downtown Residential Rental Rehabilitation Program helps property owners improve and preserve affordable rental housing in Lincoln's South of Downtown neighborhood, with up to $15,000 per dwelling unit for upgrades such as energy-efficient windows and doors, insulation, and roofing. In exchange, participating properties must stay at or below HUD Fair Market Rents for 20 years.

Mayor Michelle Wu
Boston Energy Saver is a new City of Boston service that helps renters, homeowners, and small businesses upgrade their buildings for big savings. Massachusetts has many energy efficiency programs, but it can be hard to know where to start, especially for residents who don't speak English or live in underserved neighborhoods. The service provides one-on-one support to make finding the best options easier.

Mayor Emily Jabbour
Hoboken is turning public parks into critical flood infrastructure. Its resiliency parks use rain gardens, trees, bioswales, permeable pavers, and underground detention systems to capture, absorb, store, and slowly release stormwater, easing pressure on the city's century-old combined sewer system during increasingly intense storms. For residents, that means less flooding, faster recovery, and fewer disruptions to everyday life.

Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson
Riverside is helping families stay cooler and lower their energy bills while preparing for a changing climate. A $31.2 million grant through California's Transformative Climate Communities Program is helping transform the Eastside neighborhood, where residents have planted more than 1,000 trees with partner TreePeople and GRID Alternatives Inland Empire is installing rooftop solar on 100 homes. More than $1 million in federal funding is also paying for a GIS inventory of the city's urban forest that will identify urban heat islands.

Mayor Andre Dickens
WeatheRISE ATL aims to reduce energy burdens in Atlanta's most energy-burdened neighborhoods through homeowner education, energy efficiency, and healthy home upgrades. Benefits include preserving naturally occurring affordable housing, lower carbon emissions, improved health outcomes, job training, and contractor business development.

Mayor Barbara Lee
The Oakland EcoBlock pilot research project aims to demonstrate the technical, social, legal, and financial strategies for decarbonizing cities through neighborhood block-scale retrofits. It is creating a model that combines in-home energy and water-efficient upgrades, electrification, solar, and storage. Benefits include lower, more predictable utility bills, resilience during outages, and improved indoor air quality from reduced natural gas use.

Mayor Randall Woodfin
The City of Birmingham transformed a dilapidated rail yard into a state-of-the-art park focused on stormwater management, native plants and trees, and, most importantly, a gathering place that strengthens community bonds.

Mayor Mike Johnston
Denver is confronting record-breaking heat by expanding green infrastructure. By December 2026, the city will transform at least 50 acres of pavement and thirsty bluegrass into nature-based, resilience-building landscapes. At the historic City & County Building, Denver Parks & Recreation is replacing Kentucky bluegrass with drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly native plantings. The $400,000 project, funded by the Parks Legacy Fund, will cut irrigation use by 44%, saving roughly 530,000 gallons a year.