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This session will address the regulations the FTA is currently considering to evaluate proposed New Starts projects. It will identify key opportunities and important deadlines to provide input to the New Starts regulations. It will help link housing and community development organizations to transportation advocates so that better criteria can be proposed and a broader coalition established to ensure that low-income communities have a voice in transit.
We’ll examine design considerations, types of materials, and operations and maintenance issues during this event. You’ll see photos and hear the case study of a completed project in the Green Communities™ program, and the importance of the integrated design process to ensure a healthy living environment. Data about the cost of healthy homes will be included, along with a variety of information resources.
This event will focus on renewable energy sources that are available on-site. Using three additional questions to screen the variety of renewable technologies, we find that five of them come to the forefront for use with housing: passive solar, solar hot water, photovoltaic panels, wind, and ground source heat pumps. While only photovoltaic panels for producing electricity are mentioned in the Green Communities™ Criteria, each of these sources may be worthy of investigation for your affordable housing projects. You’ll want to participate in this event to learn about what’s possible for upcoming projects.
ENERGY STAR is an accepted standard for increasing energy efficiency in single-family residential new construction projects and is widely included in rehabs. In this Live Online Event, we will examine the aspects of ENERGY STAR that are mandatory to meet the Green Communities Criteria on energy efficiency. The focus will be on ENERGY STAR homes qualification, efficient lighting, and ENERGY STAR-rated appliances.
Green Communities™ requires water-conserving appliances, fixtures, landscaping and efficient irrigation. It encourages site improvement measures of surface water management to limit runoff from properties during storms and storm drain labels. See how Hacienda CDC in Portland, Oregon met the site improvement and water conservation criteria.
Learn about the vital location and neighborhood development section of the Green Communities Criteria. Develop tools to assist you in evaluating and choosing development sites and strategies to make your projects environmentally thoughtful, healthier, diverse, more equitable and efficient to finance and construct. Discover ways to use location and neighborhood fabric as an environmental protection and economic development strategy for making projects and neighborhoods more marketable and viable.
Community development and the entire nonprofit sector face major changes in leadership as the baby boomer age wave starts rolling toward retirement. Our discussion will provide first hand case study examples from leading practitioners of executive transition management and succession planning and introduce participants to how this approach can be applied to organizations before, during and after a leadership transition.
Integrated design is at the foundation of the green building process. By exploring green building early on and with the full spectrum of project stakeholders, the greatest number of green features can be incorporated at the lowest cost.
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties developed in the early years of the program are reaching the end of the 15-year LIHTC compliance period, and are eligible for sale to their nonprofit sponsors. Also, the projects with tax credits allocated early in the program (before 1990) are not subject to extended use restrictions. Year-11 in the life of a tax credit deal is an ideal time to begin planning and taking action. We discuss disposition strategies for the nonprofit sponsor and review partnership provisions including rights of first refusal, purchase options, exit taxes and preservation of affordability.
Green design and construction can reduce energy, water and materials waste, lower the cost of home ownership, enhance durability, reduce maintenance, create a more healthy home and protect the natural environment. Dennis Creech, executive director of Southface, a nonprofit technical assistance provider on greening affordable housing, will lead a discussion on how successful nonprofit housing developers have found practical, cost-effective green design strategies that work for all housing styles—from single-family to multifamily, from new construction to renovation.
Over time, Green Communities will transform the way Americans think about, locate, design and build affordable homes. Green Communities™is a five-year, $550 million fund to build more than 8,500 rental and for-sale homes across the country that provide significant health, economic and environmental benefits to low-income families and communities. This groundbreaking effort is a partnership of Enterprise and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), along with the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association and leading corporate, financial and philanthropic organizations.
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