APA Awards 2010: Enterprise Green Communities

HUD Secretarys Opportunity and Empowerment Award

Enterprise Green Communities
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Columbia, Maryland

The Enterprise Green Communities initiative was launched in September 2004 and is a national green building program focused entirely on affordable housing. The initiative provides financing, funding, and expertise to enable developers to build or rehabilitate homes that are environmentally sustainable without compromising affordability.

The Enterprise Green Community Criteria offer: an integrated design process; smart site location and consideration of the neighborhood fabric; site improvements; water conservation; energy efficiency; use of materials beneficial to the environment; creating a healthy living environment; and operations and maintenance cost savings. Since 2004, Enterprise has invested $700 million to create 15,800 green affordable homes in 350 developments in 30 states.

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Education

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• Enterprise Green Communities
• APA
• Planning
• Housing
• HUD
• neighborhoods
• sustainability
• Columbia
• Maryland
• American Planning Association