The number of households weatherized in a given year is a factor of budgeted funding and capacity of the local agencies to complete their weatherization grants (spend all the funds).  Underspending has occured for the last multiple years due to vacancy at the weatherization crew position, which resulted in fewer weatherized homes.  This has led OEO to create a minimum and prevailing wage for subgrantee crew that went into effect in July 2022.  This increased wage and fringe has helped subgrantees retain and recruit new crew members.  The vacancy rates statewide at the crew position was 20% two years ago and has decreased to 7% currently.  This helped the network weatherize more homes in 2023.