Green is Good – Sustainable Building in Affordable Housing Development
This blog provides a great overview of green building initiatives in the affordable housing sector.
Across the country green building is a growing trend in the world of affordable housing development. Early this year, FUND had the pleasure of attending the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards, which honors the efforts of both non-profit and for-profit developers to improve Chicago area neighborhoods. One of this year’s winners that we were most impressed with was the LEED-certified Roseland Senior Campus, an affordable senior housing complex on the city’s South Side that includes features such as solar hot water and energy-efficient equipment and lighting to reduce energy costs.
Sustainable building in affordable housing increasingly makes sense due the many benefits it can create for tenants, including costs savings through reduced energy and water consumption as well as health benefits through the use of less toxic building materials and ventilation systems that improve indoor air quality.
We recently came across articles highlighting two new affordable housing developments in…
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