Neighborhoods
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Frugal Happy: A Stronger Neighborhood in a Covid-19 World
Despite the hardships and sadness the pandemic has brought, this neighborhood is closer than before
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Airbnb Will Design Its Own Houses
The company envisions homes that are designed and built for sharing
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Green and ‘Nutritious’ Affordable Housing?
Enterprise Green Communities encourages access to local agriculture — fresh fruits and vegetables — in its 2011 Criteria
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Greening the HOME Rochester Program
How HOME Rochester works The HOME Rochester Program acquires vacant single-family homes in Rochester NY, typically foreclosures, and rehabilitates them for resale to qualifying first-time homebuyers earning less than 80%…
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Production Platinum Homes
Villa Trieste is Pulte Homes' response to a number of things—an overtaxed regional infrastructure; a challenging real estate market; and consumer demand for more durable and energy-efficient homes.
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Oregon Solar Cottage Shares a Ground-Source Heat Pump with Its Neighbors
This small house on reclaimed institutional grounds in Salem, Oregon, is just the first of many to come in a project that puts equal importance on energy efficiency, environmental conservation,…
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Green Neighborhood in North Carolina
#Twenty-two homes in a cluster made for walking Eno Commons takes the idea of green homebuilding to another level — the community level. The Durham, North Carolina, project includes 22…
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New, Affordable, and Green in a Historic Neighborhood
#A Local Organization Builds Practical Homes That Fit in with Others Nearby Over the past two years, this group of affordable two-family homes in Blacksburg, Virginia, won numerous green building…