GREEN COMMUNITIES

Enterprise Green Communities is transforming the quality of affordable housing in America. Green building practices lead to healthy, efficient, and environmentally responsible homes-and as the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria is implemented at a large scale across communities, practitioners are setting a new standard for design and construction that addresses our changing climate, improves health and well-being of residents, and is economically viable for the long term... As a community of affordable housing providers, we have an opportunity to give residents agency in designing their homes and to provide access to opportunities through connections to transportation, quality food, and critical services. Green building practices can be leveraged for all of this. Enterprise Green Communities aligns affordable housing investment strategies with environmentally responsive building practices.