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Your guide to greening affordable housing

Green affordable housing keeps utility bills and repair costs in check, helps residents stay healthy, and respects the community and environment. Learn how to bring these benefits to the projects that you manage, review, or finance.

Why Build Green;
How to Build Green;

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Essentials of integrated design;
Strategies for project evaluation through permitting and review;
Policy innovations for green building;
Links to modeling tools and standards;

...and much more.

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Why Build Green

Green building makes affordable housing a true asset to the community, one that gives low-income residents more comfortable and high-performance homes, respects the environment, and strengthens the regional economy....

How to Build Green

Green building is a design and construction approach that creates high-performing, healthy homes and communities. To help owners, developers, designers, builders, and remodelers build green successfully and cost-effectively, policies...

Greenspace:

Greenspace, NCR, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering green real estate and economic development in the national capital region, developing and implementing green policies, and providing stewardship of our growing green communities. We work with private, non-profit and public partners to build the skills, knowledge and capacity of development professionals, policymakers and the public to create healthier, more sustainable communities for us all.

building pros:

Your guide to building green affordable housing.

Essentials of integrated design.
Strategies to lower construction costs.
Key points for energy efficiency, durability, and indoor air quality.
Links to modeling tools and standards.

Go to the building pros pages.

policy makers:

Bring the benefits of green to the projects you manage, review, or finance.

Green affordable housing keeps utility bills and repair costs in check, helps residents stay healthy, and respects the community and environment.

Go to the policy maker pages.

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