Habitat’s new home and rehabs will feature “green” technology (The Saginaw News)

Go green! easily could become the slogan for Saginaw Habitat for Humanity as it builds and renovates more energy-efficient homes for families in need of affordable housing. “Where we can we’re doing things green, whether it’s a new build or…

Living and affording ?green? in today?s economy (The Ithaca Journal)

Affordable housing is not easy to find in Tompkins County. In 2006 the County’s Affordable Housing Needs Assessment determined about 2,500 affordable units – those that could be owned or rented by those with less than 80% of Area Median Income without breaking the bank – were needed by 2014.

E-House Prefab Gets Green, Affordable

Aaron Newman shot me a link to an article in the South Florida Business Journal about his company, Envision Prefab. Unfortunately, the article is behind a $$ wall, but this jpeg isn’t. Envision Prefab has a simple concept that involves containers. I know we’ve been talking a lot about containers in the past week, but the idea here is to convert cargo containers into affordable housing. Envision has models in the works in West Palm Beach and in Miami, with their first model expected in ear

   

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