Report 7 Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing

Author: Deborah L. Myerson

Published: October 5, 2007

Based on a forum of experts and practitioners, this report examines the challenges to the widespread implementation of green building practices and provides recommendations to make it easier and more cost-efficient for both for-profit and not-for-profit developers to build affordable housing that is environmentally sustainable. Green affordable housing projects in Washington, D.C., southern California, Seattle, and New York City are profiled.