Green Low Income Housing in SE
21 10 2008Everyone is getting in on the sustainability bandwagon these days. The Community Preservation and Development Corporation along with the District will be giving a green makeover to the Wheeler Terrace Apartments in Southeast. This project joins other initiatives around town that aim to incorporate green principles into existing buildings while having a minimal impact on the residents.
The project will replace existing building systems in the affordable housing development, upgrade the existing flat roof with a new pitched roof, and do site improvements and extensive interior renovations all to reduce the environmental impact of the building.
The most interesting part is that according to the WBJ the entire project is going to happen without residents leaving the property. While units are being worked on the residents will move into vacant units until the work is complete.
Cool! It’s great to see green housing catching on, especially when our tax dollars are funding it.
It would be great to see something happen which bridges the divide from sustainable to attainable. There seems to be this gap occurring in the green world where there is affordable housing income dependent and uber luxury housing that has all the bells and whistles of sounding green. In looking forward It would be great harmonize an approach that affords the vast majority of working class first time home buyers an opportunity to live in attainably priced sustainably built condos.