Action 3-3 · BO

By 2028, scale SF Environment's heat pump direct install program to include additional equipment and serve 1,000 households each year while creating high-quality jobs for employed workers.

Timing: By 2028
Lead department: SF Environment
Strategy: Equitably expand the building decarbonization workforce with targeted support for contractors and workers from environmental justice communities.
In the plan: Page 51 of the published PDF

Implementation status

Departments report status each January through the City's monitoring, evaluation, and reporting cycle. The first report on the 2026 plan covers calendar year 2026. Status, milestones, and notes will appear here.

In the emissions model

Appendix D models this action as part of Scale SFE Heat Pump Installations to Serve 1,000 Households Each Year, one of the buildings strategies expected to cut that sector's emissions 68% below 1990 by 2030 and 93% by 2040.

Per-action tonnage is not published; the model reports impacts by sector. See the emissions trajectory.

Racial and Social Equity ReviewWhat the equity review said about this strategy

Equity impacts

Specific actions and measures are necessary to ensure EJ communities can access trainings and benefits of a decarbonization workforce. Access to information and knowledge sharing can be limited, but integral to ensuring that EJ communities can take advantage of the opportunities of building decarbonization jobs.

Recommendations

The focus should be primarily in EJ communities. Early outreach and education, as well as workforce development, are important to ensure communities are prepared with the skills to capitalize on the decarbonization transition.
Continue taking actions to advance equity such as ensuring engagement is targeted to EJ communities and empowering them to benefit from building decarbonization.
The CEH (Climate Hub) Direct Install program could support coordinating local EJ contractors to cover their respective regions in the city, reducing commute times and costs on cross-city jobs, and strengthening community ties.

Suggested edit to the draft

Suggest modifying the strategy as follows: "Expand the building decarbonization workforce with targeted support for contractors and workers from EJ communities."

Adopted in the final plan. Final Strategy BO-3 reads "Equitably expand the building decarbonization workforce with targeted support for contractors and workers from environmental justice communities."

Source: 2026 Climate Action Plan, Appendix C. Adoption status is our reading of the final text, pending SFE confirmation.