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IntermediateBadge: Equity1.5 CE LEEDWELL

Build More or Build Green? Affordable Housing's False Choice

The perceived first cost of sustainable and regenerative design solutions is one of the most persistent barriers to their adoption in the affordable housing sector. Taking affordable housing from gray to green won’t be easy—but if we get it right, we can solve a complex network of systemic problems all in one go.
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GBCI: 0920029858
Continuing education: 1.5 CE
AIA credits: 1.5 LU/HSW
Completions: 499
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Objectives

  1. Define and understand affordable housing in the U.S., including its impacts on the environment and on human health and wellbeing.
  2. Adopt systems thinking to simultaneously address the intersecting social and environmental crises of climate change, systemic racism, and the affordable housing shortage.
  3. Reframe the conventional wisdom that sustainability and affordability are at odds.
  4. Develop sustainability strategies centered on quality of life and culturally responsive community design.

Leaders

Elizabeth Waters

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