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Affordable Green Housing Develops In Seattle

Posted by: Nate Berg

7 May 2007 - 11:00am

Seattle-based affordable housing developers use the city's green building standards and grant programs to get many affordable housing projects started in the city and beyond.

Enterprise launched the five-year Green Communities Initiative in 2004, aiming $555 million in grants, loans and tax-credit investor funds at building more than 8,500 green, affordable homes nationally. It based its green-building criteria on the SeaGreen Affordable Housing Guide -- green-building guidelines that the city of Seattle put in place in 2002.

Efforts such as these helped inspire new state and federal plans aimed at green low-income housing -- which generally means housing for people earning up to 80 percent of median income.

Full Story: More low-income housing being built green
Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 5, 2007
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