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We Need a Plan for Decarbonization That Doesn’t Displace Renters
More and more cities and states have plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in housing. Here's how we can avoid possible harms to renters.
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What Makes Affordable Housing ‘Green’?
There’s no one way to determine what makes “green” housing. Here’s a breakdown of the standards and considerations used by the affordable housing industry.
How Organizers in Rio’s Favelas Are Harnessing Solar Energy
Neighborhoods on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro face a multitude of challenges, including social and racial inequity, and a lack of public services. This organization is hoping to prove that solar energy can benefit neighborhoods, lower electric bills, and provide jobs.
Making Housing More Accessible for People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
Accessibility for this challenging disability can look different from other measures—but addressing it could help improve everyone’s health.
The [Un]Affordability of Accessibility: The Challenge of Retrofitting American Homes
Home modifications vary greatly in form and cost, a challenge for disabled residents whose homes aren’t accessible to them.
Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic: Green Affordable Housing Matters More Than Ever
COVID-19 is quickly changing how we think about the places we live, and about how we will design the new normal. Green building must be part of that vision.
To Build Affordable and Green, Consider Passive Houses
By building energy-efficient properties, Habitat reduces heating costs and frees up more than $100 each month for homeowners.
Renovating Senior Complexes to Be Green, Healthy, and Connected
Orness Plaza is one of the only public housing developments geared toward seniors and the disabled in Mankato, Minn., the state’s fourth largest city. Although the city boasts significant economic […]
Lighting a Spark Between Energy Advocates and Community Development
Partnerships between utility companies and affordable rental housing owners are ripe for development, when the right switch is flipped.
Greening the Affordable Housing Business Model
Enterprise Community Partners has formed the National Multifamily Energy Services Collaborative intended to “design and implement a full suite of green services to help older multifamily properties realize the significant […]
Interview with Shelley Poticha, Director of Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities
Shelterforce speaks with Shelley Poticha, director of HUD’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, about implementing sustainable policy at the federal level while encouraging local innovation, keeping down the cost of green housing, and effecting change while dealing with federal government bureaucracy.
Leading the Way to Green
In Virginia, a statewide incentive program has put new affordable housing projects out in front of most market-rate developers when it comes to green design.
Green Is Affordable
The affordable housing movement has not only accepted green building, but is making it integral to its work.