Gray to green communities : a call to action on the housing and climate crises / Dana L. Bourland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourland, Dana L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--United States.

Sustainable development.

Housing--Environmental aspects--United States.

Housing.

Sustainable living--United States.

Sustainable living.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 178 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Island Press, [2021]

Summary:

In Gray to Green Communities, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a gray housing model to a green model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. She demonstrates that we do not have to choose between protecting our planet and providing housing affordable to all. Bourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, a national community development intermediary. Her work resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing which was designed to deliver measurable health, economic, and environmental benefits. The book opens with the potential of green affordable housing, followed by the problems that it is helping to solve, challenges in the approach that need to be overcome, and recommendations for the future of green affordable housing.

Contents:

The problem with gray

The promise of green

Learning from the green communities criteria

The challenges to greening affordable housing for all

A just future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781642831290

1642831298

OCLC:

1226591622