Affordable Housing Goes Green with $12 Million Energy Efficiency Program via multihousingnews.com

By now, people are aware of how important going green is for the multifamily industry—it’s better for the environment, and it also often provides money-saving benefits. Because of this, Enterprise Community Partners Inc. has formed the National Multifamily Energy Services Collaborative (The Collaborative) with the Center for Neighborhood Technology Energy (CNT), LINC Housing and the Hispanic Housing Development Corporation. The Collaborative will design and implement green services for affordable multifamily properties.

The Collaborative is a $12 million program. It received funding, leveraged and matched by Enterprise with public, private and philanthropic funding, from a recent grant of $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Energy Innovation funding.

“There are a lot of entities all trying to figure [retrofitting] out, and that’s a real barrier to creating a scalable retrofit marketplace, because at the end of the day, there are no real standards or no real operating procedures to take advantage of the economies of scale that come when we’re all heading in the same direction,” Dana Bourland, vice president, Enterprise Green Communities, tells MHN. “It was our idea through The Collaborative that we would create a national platform to standardize the operating procedure to retrofitting existing multifamily affordable buildings.”

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