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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott Is Donating Two of Her Homes to Fund Affordable Housing Initiatives

Pro Builder

The organization’s eventual goal is to build and maintain affordable housing units for low-income people in Los Angeles, and fund housing justice programs that help tenants access information and apply for rental assistance programs, he adds. Read more Financing Affordability Financing

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

BD+C

Some teachers in Northern California are living out of their cars, in hovels in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and with multiple roommates in one-bedroom apartments in Daly City, because they can’t afford to pay market-rate rent. And that’s just California. It gets worse.

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A New Wave of Intentional Communities

Natural Building

The East Wind Community is hidden deep in the Ozarks of southern Missouri and calls itself an “income-sharing, egalitarian community” They have 1,145 acres of largely undeveloped highland forest. East Winders in front of REIM, which houses the community’s laundry room and a music studio. photo credit…George Etheredge.

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M&V, MBCx, WTF: Building Performance Monitoring as a Means to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

Stok

In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets. However, because of how the M&V credit has evolved from LEED version 2.0

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AEE WEST 2023: Building Performance Monitoring

Stok

In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets. However, because of how the M&V credit has evolved from LEED version 2.0

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

Business Facilities

“It’s very encouraging to see that FIT applications are rolling in from across the city, particularly low-income neighborhoods where the environmental and economic benefits are so important,” said Dr. Manuel Pastor, Director of the USC PERE and one of the report’s authors.

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For Sarah Hernandez, The Korte Company made her American dream come true

The Korte Company

But California also offered something Oklahoma lacked: people who better reflected her mother’s heritage. “I My husband and I are very involved in giving back to lower-income communities. Her father stayed in Oklahoma while she and her brother joined their mother in Los Angeles. I grew up in a Hispanic community,” said Sarah.