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Enterprise Green Communities is pleased to now offer an online process for certifying green affordable housing developments. Enterprise Green Communities Certification is open to affordable housing projects intending to meet the Green Communities Criteria. Developments that receive Green Communities Certification will be recognized on the Green Communities website and will receive a Green Communities plaque after construction completion. This WebEx will include discussion of the Enterprise Green Communities’ certification process as well as a demonstration of the current requirements for the two-step online certification submittal and review. Future plans for the refinement of the certification process moving forward will also be presented.
- Understand the requirements of the Enterprise Green Communities Certification Process
- Learn how to prepare application materials to successfully complete the process.
- Affordable housing developers interested in certifying their projects through Enterprise Green Communities.
- Policymakers interested in learning of an implementation pathway for green affordable housing policy
- Dana L. Bourland, AICP, LEED AP. Dana directs all aspects of Enterprise’s national award-winning Green Communities initiative. Currently, she is leading the second phase of Green Communities to specifically address retrofits of existing buildings and the comprehensive provision of community-based green services
- Emily Mitchell. Emily is a Program Director at Enterprise, where she provides technical assistance and training to developers and project team members incorporating the Green Communities Criteria into affordable housing projects.
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FRESC: Good Jobs, Strong Communities and Enterprise researched transit agency approaches to affordability in joint development in 24 cities in the U.S. This session summarizes the resulting report, including the best practices and outcomes among these agencies.
Download the report (PDF, 934KB)
Transit agencies’ primary mission is to provide transit service; however, most recognize that affordable housing can play a key role in supporting their mission. Many agencies have written policies or plans on affordability that guide their joint development activity while others do not have written policies but achieve joint development with affordable housing in practice based on strong agency and community expectations. Successful transit agencies do not substitute for the role of the local government in creating affordable housing but can play a critical complementary role, often initiating projects that include affordable housing that would not have otherwise been possible. For example:
- At least nine transit agencies have joint development policies that include affordable housing and six others have practices of including affordable units in projects even in the absence of written policy.
- At least 3,408 affordable housing units have been created through transit agency joint development.
- At least 1,813 additional units are in various stages of planning and development.
- Participants will understand why transit agencies include affordable housing in joint development.
- Participants will learn about the varying policies and practices used by transit agencies to facilitate joint development.
- Participants will learn about the outcomes of these policies to date.
- Affordable housing developers and practitioners with an interest in transit-oriented development
- State and local officials with transit-related issues in their communities.
- Advocates and organizers focused on equity issues in their communities.
- Transit experts with an interest in connecting to affordable housing interests.
- Robin Kniech, Program Director and Staff Attorney, FRESC: Good Jobs, Strong Communities, Denver, CO
- Melinda Pollack, Director, Vulnerable Populations and Rental Preservation, Enterprise Community Partners
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