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Cleveland is looking to improve housing affordability through highly efficient, solar-powered homes, reports Olivera Perkins in Signal Cleveland.
Because utilities comprise up to 30 percent of renters’ housing costs, Cleveland’s Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM) is building affordable housing that uses solar power and efficiency tools to bring down utilities costs. “The LMM solar efficiencies were built on parcels transferred from either the Cuyahoga Land Bank or the Cleveland Land Bank,” and LMM hopes it can build similar projects on other properties owned by the land bank. “Each LMM solar efficiency costs $170,000 to construct or a total of $680,000 for the two duplexes. The funding came from public and private sources.”
According to Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Chris Ronayne, “This is a model to not only construct solar housing, but affordable housing. These homes can be replicated many times over here in the city of Cleveland and in many of our suburban communities that lack affordable housing.”
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