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Affordable housing goes ‘green’

It’s an inside-out apartment house: The boiler is on the top floor, the insulation is outside the concrete walls, and the garden’s going to be on the roof.

The Enterprise Foundation is helping fund this green affordable housing project in Cambridge, Mass.

On New York’s Lower East Side, this brick apartment house — still under construction — is one of a number of environmentally conscious and energy-efficient building projects.

It’s also one of the more tangible manifestations of a trend taking off in cities across the country: the merging of affordable housing and "green" building. City officials and others are recognizing that energy-efficient buildings, while they may cost a bit more to build, are far more affordable than traditional housing in the truest sense of the word. They cost less to operate and live in, and they provide tenants with a healthier atmosphere that can save on health care costs.

By Alexandra Marks, The Christian Science Monitor

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-11-21-green-affordable-housing_x.htm

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