Affordable
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A Community Responds to the Housing Crisis
A non-profit group in Utah is teaching natural building skills to future homeowners
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Building a Passive House for $163 per Square Foot
This superinsulated single-family home in Rhode Island cost $300,420 to build
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Building a Low-Cost Zero-Energy Home
Follow these guidelines to keep costs as low as possible
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Making Green Affordable, Part 2
To keep costs down, skip the basement, specify double-stud walls, design a simple truss-framed roof, and stick with double-glazed windows
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Net-Zero For a Competitive Price
A California model home comes in at $150 a square foot — demonstrating that net-zero doesn't have to cost much more than conventional construction
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Affordable Housing is Leading Green Building
How I learned more than I expected at an affordable housing conference
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An Affordable Passivhaus in British Columbia
The design-and-construction team that built the Austria Passive House for the winter Olympics applies PHPP modeling to an affordable-housing duplex
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Assorted Signals from the Green Building Market
Homebuyers and builders wrestle with perceptions about costs and benefits of energy efficient homes; meanwhile, a notable increase in the number of certified Passive House consultants suggests the standard will gain a firmer foothold in the U.S.
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Greening the HOME Rochester Program
How HOME Rochester works The HOME Rochester Program acquires vacant single-family homes in Rochester NY, typically foreclosures, and rehabilitates them for resale to qualifying first-time homebuyers earning less than 80%…
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Home Depot Foundation, Habitat for Humanity Expand Green Program
The five-year initiative will provide grants of as much as $5,000 for each Habitat home built to green standards
