Sustainable Affordable Housing Management Book with eBook Bonus + FREE Webinars (a $50 Value)

Create and Implement Sustainability Plans for Your Site! 

Contains 20 Model Tools—including Memos, House Rules, Agreements, Notices, Checklists, and more—that you can adapt and use immediately at your site!

This comprehensive guide will help owners and managers of affordable housing sites create and implement sustainability plans for their sites. This guide explains how to:

• Save money by reducing energy and water consumption;
• Get residents to adopt “green” practices, such as recycling and composting;
• Get incentives for sustainability initiatives, including major energy-saving improvements and retrofits; and
• Improve the health of residents by:

1. Reducing their exposure to toxic paints, pesticides, cleaning products, and other chemicals
2. Improving their access to healthy food
3. Creating a community garden
4. Implementing a no-smoking policy

This guide will show you how to set goals for reducing overall energy costs, both for the site and for residents, and take steps to improve your residents’ quality of life by improving the site’s air and other health impacts.

HUD takes environmental sustainability at affordable housing sites seriously by requiring and rewarding many energy-efficiency and other conservation practices at assisted sites. And every section of this guide gives you links to resources that offer financial incentives, expertise, and free tools you can adapt and use to meet the sustainability goals at your site.

This guide will help you find ways to:

• Increase the value and quality of your site
• Reduce operating costs
• Conserve energy and environmental resources
• Improve resident and employee well-being

A well-implemented sustainability plan also helps low-income residents succeed by helping them save money and become healthier, through sustainable site practices like community gardens that increase their access to healthy food, and green cleaning policies and training that reduce their exposure to chemicals in their units and the site’s common areas.

About Your FREE Webinar Recordings:

Green Roofs: How to Add This Value-Enhancing Amenity in Multifamily Housing: This one-hour recorded webinar discusses how you can install “green roofs” to help improve water run-off, air quality, and residents’ well-being; enhance the overall property value; and comply with new and ever-stricter “green” requirements that cities across the country are mandating.

How to Create a Successful Community Garden for Residents: In this one-hour webinar, speaker Carolyn Zezima provides the basics about community gardens, describe the benefits you’ll reap, and explain the steps to take to start and manage a community garden program at your property.

*Please Note: The FREE eBook is a download in EPUB3 and PDF.  EPUB is optimized for iBook for Apple & Adobe Digital Editions 4.5 on non-Apple devices. Links to free downloads of the iBooks and Adobe apps are provided. 

FREE DOWNLOAD: Creating a Successful Community Garden for Residents (from the Sustainable Affordable Housing Management Print/eBook Combo.)

The popularity of community gardens has exploded in recent years to over 18,000 community gardens in the U.S. and Canada. Many assisted and public housing sites see the benefits of having community gardening programs for residents and have started these programs at their sites. For example, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has about 700 gardens at its housing sites, and even has an in-house “Garden & Greening” program that supports NYCHA residents who want to create a community garden at their sites. And HUD has several programs, such as its Neighborhood Networks program, that encourage assisted sites to start community gardens for residents. this free download gives you the basics about community gardens, describe the benefits you’ll reap, and explain the steps to take to start and manage a community garden program at your assisted site.

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