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In 2008, the city of Columbus took a significant step in their housing policy by making green design central to their $22.8 million, federally funded, Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). Based on the Green Communities Criteria, the City of Columbus and Franklin County were able to create the AWARE Manual which describes their specific green rehabilitation standards and sample specifications, to hand out to developers, contractors, and other partners. View the full case study (PDF, 834K).
. Thanks to Enterprise’s Green Communities initiative, the industry is rethinking the way affordable housing is designed and built. Our five-year initiative invested $700 million to build nearly 16,000 green affordable homes, and demonstrated that green affordable housing is attainable. That it produces measurable long-term cost savings. And it brings health, economic and environmental benefits that will sustain communities into the next generation and beyond. Enterprise Green Communities now moves into a new phase with a firm commitment to make housing green and affordable for all.
In Ohio:
- Ohio Green Communities is part of a national effort to transform the way we think about, locate and design affordable housing. Green Communities, led by Enterprise, has invested more $700 million in homes that are built according to the Green Communities Criteria, creating nearly 16,000 green affordable homes in more than 30 states, providing significant health, economic and environmental benefits to low-income families and communities across the country.
- The Enterprise Green Communities Criteria was adopted by the cities of Cleveland and Columbus as the standard for homes rehabbed and rebuilt under the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
- More than half of the developments awarded Low-Income Housing Tax Credits in 2009 met the Criteria.
- Enterprise is also developing a Green Retrofit Fund: a new financing tool for developers to retrofit their multifamily properties with energy-saving features.
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An independent, nonprofit corporation originally created by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency in 1989. The mission of Ohio Capital Corporation for housing is to cause the construction, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing in Ohio. Through its affiliates, OCCH has raised over $800 million of equity and invested in 300 projects, which have produced more than 15,000 affordable homes in 70 of Ohio’s 88 counties.
A state agency that offers affordable housing opportunities for Ohioans from rental living to homeownership. Created in 1983, OHFA has issued over $5 billion in bonds for first-time homebuyer mortgages and has funded through tax credits and loans over 1,300 affordable rental housing communities.
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