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A recent collaboration between Enterprise Green Communities and GreenBuildingAdvisor.com (GBA), the Enterprise Green Communities NSP webpage includes informational resources for those focusing on incorporating green rehabilitation standards into their Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
Hosted by GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, this webinar will walk you through all the ways in which you can use GBA and the Enterprise Green Communities NSP webpage in your work as a green rehab specialist. Some of the features reviewed will be the GBA encyclopedia, the Construction Details Library, and the Strategy Generator. There will be substantial Q&A time to make sure you get full value from the webinar and from GBA.
- Understand how the Enterprise Green Communities NSP webpage can be used as an information tool for green rehabilitation projects.
- Learn about the upcoming features on the Enterprise Green Communities NSP webpage.
- Become familiar with other features of the GBA website.
- Rehabilitation specialists and program managers in the public and non-profit sector.
- Contractors and Developers interested in learning more about building science resources related to single family rehabilitation.
Peter Yost – Peter Yost is the technical director of GreenBuildingAdvisor.com. Peter is one of the primary authors and reviewers of GBA’s technical content. He has 25 years experience in the residential building industry, including work with DOE’s Building America program; EPA’s WaterSense, Waste Management, and Green Building programs; Environmental Building News; Building Science Corporation; and the NAHB Research Center.
Amy Hook – Amy Hook is a Program Director in the Green Communities Initiative for Enterprise Community Partners in Columbia, Maryland. Amy is an experienced residential and commercial real estate developer, as well as a LEED Accredited Professional.
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Enterprise's "Green Asset Management Toolkit for Multifamily Housing" is designed for owners, asset managers and property management staff. The Toolkit includes holistic approaches to managing and improving the performance of an existing building, including those that were not constructed to be green. It includes action steps that can be implemented today with minimal cost as well as more robust measures that can be carried out when replacing failing equipment or addressing individual building issues.
The session will cover the structure and key elements of the Green Asset Management Toolkit. Attendees will also hear from a Boston-based affordable housing developer that has incorporated comprehensive green practices into its asset management approach.
- Learn about the benefits of incorporating green practices into your asset management approach.
- Understand the general format and content of Enterprise’s Green Asset Management Toolkit.
- Learn from an affordable housing developer how to prioritize and implement green practices into your existing buildings.
- Affordable housing owners and developers interested in incorporating green practices into their asset management approach.
- •Project teams interested in resources around greening existing buildings.
- Beth O’Leary, Senior Vice President, Asset Management, Enterprise Community Investment
- Dana Bourland, Vice President, Green Initiatives, Enterprise Community Partners
- Elizabeth McCollum, Implementation Program Manager, Heschong Mahone Group
- Jane Carbone and Beverly Craig, Homeowner’s Rehab Inc
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This session is focused on strategies for improving ventilation in multifamily buildings. Two leading experts, Terry Brennan of Camroden Associates and Marc Zuluaga of Steven Winter Associates, will describe key steps in diagnosing existing ventilation systems to determine if the systems are providing healthy living environments and, if not, what approaches can help improve and fix the systems.
In this session, our experts will focus on existing buildings with central roof exhausts and buildings with no or limited fans. Multifamily building owners planning rehab projects can learn how to incorporate ventilation upgrades to meet the Green Communities Criteria requirements.
This session is sponsored by Enterprise Community Partners and The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) with support from Ellen Tohn with Tohn Environmental Strategies. Factsheets on ventilation strategies for existing affordable housing can be downloaded from the NCHH website at: http://www.nchh.org/Training/Green-and-Healthy-Housing.aspx
- Understand simple strategies for diagnosing problems with existing ventilation systems.
- Explore system fixes that help a project meet the ventilation requirements in the Green Communities Criteria.
- Multifamily building owners interested in improving the indoor environmental quality of existing buildings in their portfolio.
- Asset and property managers, particularly those who’ve heard resident complaints that may be related to ventilation.
- Mechanical engineers working on existing multifamily projects.
- Ellen Tohn, Tohn Environmental Strategies
- Terry Brennan, Camroden Associates, Inc.
- Marc Zuluaga, Steven Winter Associates
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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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