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Striving for Green Affordable Housing

With sustainability a priority for President-elect Barack Obama, it may be possible to transfer this effort to the low-income housing sector.

By Sule Aygoren Carranza | Updated on January 05, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC-Improving sustainability and energy efficiency is one of the primary goals of the incoming Administration. There is a place within this effort to revamp the nation’s inventory of affordable housing, maintains David M. Abromowitz, a partner with the law firm of Goulston & Storrs and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress–a nonpartisan research and educational institute.

Green affordable housing is indeed within reach, says Abromowitz, a 25-year industry expert who focuses on housing policy and related federal and state programs and issues. According to him, greening the existing US affordable housing stock–some six million units–would provide important fiscal, economic and environmental benefits.

Included in President-elect Barack Obama’s sustainability goals is the creation of green jobs. Targeted green retrofitting, notes Abromowitz, can lead to a growth in employment within the sector. Further, investment in making low-income housing more efficient has the potential to stimulate a green renovation industry with best practices and technologies that would apply to the market-rate housing sector.

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