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Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition

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The lack of affordable housing and the climate crisis are two of the most pressing challenges facing cities today. Green affordable housing addresses both by providing housing stability, safety, and financial predictability while constructing and operating the buildings to reduce environmental and climate impacts.
 
Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing is the most comprehensive resource on how green building principles can be incorporated into affordable housing design, construction, and operation. In this fully revised edition, Walker Wells and Kimberly Vermeer capture the rapid evolution of green building practices and make a compelling case for integrating green building in affordable housing. The Blueprint offers guidance on innovative practices, green building certifications for affordable housing, and the latest financing strategies. The completely new case studies share detailed insights on how the many elements of a green building are incorporated into different housing types and locations. Case studies include a geographical range, from high-desert homeownership, to southeast supportive housing, and net-zero family apartments on the coasts. The new edition includes basic planning tools such as checklists to guide the planning process, and questions to encourage reflection about how the content applies in practice.
 
While Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing is especially useful to housing development project managers, the information and insights will be valuable to all participants in the affordable housing industry: developers, designers and engineers, funders, public agency staff, property and asset managers, housing advocates, and resident advocates.
 
Every affordable housing project can achieve the fundamentals of good green building design and practice. By sharing the authors' years of expertise in guiding hundreds of organizations, Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition gives project teams what they need to push for excellence.

By Walker Wells

Imprint: ISLAND PRESS

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Format: PAPERBACK

Pages: 239


Front Cover

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Foreword

1. The Case for Greening Affordable Housing

2. The Integrated Design Process

3. Best Practices in Green Design

4. Green Operations

5. Costs and Financing

6. Looking Forward: Four Trends Redefining Green Affordable Housing

Case Studies

Case 1: Auburn Court, 3 Brookline Place

Case 2: Avery Hill Solar

Case 3: The Villages at Cabrillo

Case 4: El Camino Crossing

Case 5: The Lace Mill

Case 6: Mutual Housing at Spring Lake

Case 7: Orchards at Orenco I

Case 8: Phoenix House

Case 9: Habitat for Humanity at Plaza Roosevelt

Case 10: The Rose

Case 11: North Santa Fe Apartments

Case 12: Second Street Studios

Case 13: Sendero Verde

Case 14: Senior Residences at Decatur East

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Checklists

Index

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