If houses had personalities, passive homes would be the kind that are calm, quiet and have a reliable temperament. Passive House significantly reduces the carbon footprint while making a comfortable, healthy, and affordable environment.
How can affordable housing be built to operate to high efficiency standards, enduring into an uncertain climate future? Currently, the resources available to achieve these goals are falling short of the costs to meet them.
The math underpinning Massachusetts’s affordable housing challenges looks stark.
Homeowners Rehab Inc. has received funding for a 98-unit apartment community in Cambridge to be called Concord Highlands. It will be the largest affordable housing community in Cambridge in 40 years, with all units being deed-restricted and affordable.
MassHousing recently provided a funding package to nonprofit Homeowners Rehab Inc. to finance upgrades for existing units as well as the construction of nine new units at a Cambridge apartment complex.
