WHAT’S NEW



National Center for Healthy Housing reports on housing and health research, highlighting work at Viking Terrace.

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust profiles The Wellstone.

Greater Minnesota Housing Fund's Building Better Neighborhoods home plans were recently revised to make it easier to address construction-related Green Communities Criteria.



 
     

MINNESOTA GREEN COMMUNITIES
This initiative is designed to foster the creation of affordable, healthier, and more energy-efficient housing throughout the state of Minnesota.

 


“Long-term affordability for our housing stock is an important issue and green building strategies can help us keep operating and maintenance costs down and create healthier indoor environmnets for families.”
— Michael Krause, Kandiyohi Development Partners

 
 



Minnesota Green Communities is a statewide collaboration of the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, the Family Housing Fund, and Enterprise. The National Green Communities initiative is a five-year commitment by Enterprise to build more than 8,500 healthy, efficient homes for low-income people and make sustainable development the mainstream in the affordable housing industry.

Minnesota Green Communities is by far the largest green building program in Minnesota, with 497 units completed, 908 under construction, and another 1,645 under development.

Click here to visit National Green Communities site



Thank you Green by Design sponsors and participants! Resources from the conference will be available online by June 24.

 

 

 
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